That's very unlikely because hospitals lose money doing that. Hospitals don't want to admit mamaw with pneumonia.
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The Federal guidelines were a pretty good guide to knowing when to open things up, but nobody had the patience or the willpower to follow them. Hopefully the new state and local business regulations will be good enough to keep a new outbreak under reasonable control while still allowing some commerce to take place, but business owners are going to get tired of those too. We’ll just have to see how all this plays out.
From what I am seeing most people- even the ones that go to the hospital don't have to be put on a vent. Most of the patients I'm seeing are either morbidly obese or elderly. I've had a couple of exceptions but the vast majority are in one of those two categories.
No because those types of patients drain the system. No one would admit that type of patient for the fun of it. It's expensive to take care of those types of patients. The hospital makes money from elective procedures and surgeries. If you come in for pneumonia, they are literally plotting how to get you out once you hit the door. Hospitals hate those types of patients.
I just don't see that happening. For one, administrators would have a fit because they are usually trying to get rid of patients. Two, you're saying a physician is falsely admitting and keeping a patient on a lockdown unit away from family. I haven't seen any of that happening in my hospital. They are trying to discharge as many COVID patients as possible, so they can get back to elective surgeries.
Hospital beds have been sitting empty. I can tell you for a fact hospital admins don't like empty beds period. Where did you hear me say falsely admitting? I said positive covid patients being admitted for treament, nothing false about that at all.
ETA I do agree with you during normal times that yes elective surgeries are the money makers but these haven't been normal times.
The federal guidelines allowed for adjustment based on local conditions. If you're in NYC, yea, you probably need to see declining cases for two weeks before opening back up (although as long as you're running the subway, I'm not sure how much god locking down everything else does). IF you're in a place with empty hospitals and a small number of cases, there's no reason to spend another 3 or 4 weeks waiting to see declining cases while your hospitals sit empty.
What about the ongoing pissing match between Tate and the speaker, Gunn, and delbert about whether the gov or the legislature should have the say so where the 1.25 billion in federal funds is allocated (if that is discussable)? Thoughts?
As others have said, hospitals aren't admitting patients unless there is a need. If anything, they're pushing patients home to self-monitor and quarantine. Regardless of reimbursement level, it wouldn't be covering the cost of providing care.
Add to that if you live in an area where you have more than one hospital, do you think administrators want to be known in the community as having a high inpatient COVID population? How would that work when restrictions ease and elective surgeries begin? You think the general population is going to want to have that procedure in a place with a low or high COVID population? In my opinion, the hospitals do a great job of isolation so it wouldn't matter - but to those health illiterate - it will matter to them.
I tend to agree. As does the law. That is why the legislature convened today, after sitting on their collective asses for 7 weeks as non-essential workers, to try and change a decades old law that gives the gov the power in these situations. I'm no Tate fan, but what the legislature tried to do today after cowering in the corner like puss**s for the last 7 weeks is sickening.
I don't know about NY, but if a nursing home resident gets sick enough - they're headed to the hospital. The nursing homes aren't equipped to provide the level of care. As of today, nursing homes in Georgia have reported 3,457 cases of the virus - with 511 deaths.
While this shows a 14.7% death rate for those infected, I don't know how many total are in a nursing home within the state.
https://dch.georgia.gov/announcement...ovid-19-report