Nope. This would be a “bounce back” and specifically is not eligible for reimbursement. So he will get dumped again ASAP.
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I’m trying to think about what other hospital is in that area… the closest is probably over in LIthonia and is Dekalb medical (which is now an Emory hospital). That’s probably 15 miles or so?
They should have, at the very least, stabilized him, and taken him up to Emory instead. Of course, if he’s poor, then there is grady for that, which has to take him, because it’s public.
It shouldn’t. Let’s not forget that we did not expand medicare here, which is part of why rural hopsitals were closing.
Southern Poverty Law?
Them too.
Note the RACE of the man who got thrown out of the hospital, for one, or who tends to be working class or indigent.
POC, LGBQT folks, women - we know what we experience in our lives. We know what’s happening TO US right now. That’s not “a red herring.” It’s actually happening. I’m REALLY sick of people like YOU telling us that it’s just in our heads and that if we just fixed the “class problem” it would be fine. It’s just not the case. They are interrelated and we deal with them all, or oppression doesn’t magically disappear.
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Prior admission, or prior release?
He’d already been there 45 days according to the clip, so they may be in the clear.
ETA: I think @docosc ’s use of the term “bounce back” a few posts ago cleared it up for me, but I’ll leave this here just in case.
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And this is why, beyond providing for the proper and generous compensation of healthcare workers at all levels (nurses, techs, doctors) all profit motive should be made illegal in all aspects of healthcare.
Generous salaries for healthcare workers and researchers: yes
Profit margins for investors and private insurance industries: NO
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No. Fuck that tankie, brocialist, class reductionist bullshit.
“Race, gender, and many other socio-political issues” are fronts in the class war. If we lose on one of those fronts we can’t win the class war because we will still have classes, just under a different name.
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Ambulances are required to bring you to the nearest ER in most (if not all) places. That’s what happens when you write rules to not allow discretion by the people on site in a situation.
The headline of this story is what happens when you do allow discretion by people who really shouldn’t have it.
Unfortunately the system we live in doesn’t put in much effort to bridge the gap between those extremes when it comes to rulemaking, and is often actively perverse about whose hands are tied and when.
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So true. Though I’d argue it is also very hard for any white american to understand, particularly those middle class or above. It took me an embarassingly long time to realize this myself, having been raised in mostly white and mostly middle class areas. It wasn’t something we discussed at home, as my parents bought hard into the anyone can succeed in the US bullshit. We didn’t discuss it at school much either. I didn’t start to get a clue until college 
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“Let’s solve pay inequality, but for goodness sake don’t bring up historical salaries of women and BIPOC – that’s a red herring, ma-a-a-an!”
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all profit motive should be made illegal in all aspects of healthcare
and law enforcement, and incarceration, and K12 education, and…
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The prior admission is measured as a whole, not just the start. So it’s not about how long the patient was there but when he was discharged. Re-admission within 30 days of discharge better have a whole new diagnosis unrelated to the previous one or any complications from the prior stay or it’s going to be closely scrutinized.
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There is is: different fronts of the same war.
Divide and conquer works well, if you can keep your enemies from working together to outflank you.
Our job: to outflank them, and hit simultaneously on every front. Because every front is crucial.
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And so convenient that white people are educated in such a way as to tell them the only way to improve the problems that racism has left our society with is to ignore racism and insist those problems aren’t there because of racism.
In the apologetics many white people in the US are taught from the day they are born, racism is just old ladies who don’t know what word not to use. Racism is just a handful of hateful angry men who are outliers or bad apples. Racism is having to think about other people’s racial experience.
etc etc ad nauseum
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I would personally use the word “indoctrination” rather than education. The myths of the American Dream and rugged individualism, the gospel of many white evangelical denominations of christianity, the purposeful lack of education about systemic racism- it is all cogs in the machine of systemic racism and the collective white delusion that rascism doesn’t exist on more than an individual level.
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I kind of agree, but then the thing is I think it’s also important to understand that for those of us that grow up here and those of us growing up here now… this erasure of racism and racial history from US history actually partially is due to our public education systems. It wasn’t even that long ago when schools, themselves, were segregated. Not talking about something for this long when people need the tools to talk about it this badly is definitely a choice.
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So the hospital’s big mistake here was not dumping him off into the catchment area of a different hospital. Well they know that for next time.
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100%, I went through the US public education system, and actual life experience showed just how lacking it was.
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The article says two doctors – two! – declared him “fit to leave.” I’m hoping there’s a crime they can be charged with, or at the very least that their medical licenses are revoked.
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Oh, definitely! The way history is taught in the US, both public and private primary systems, is so whitewashed it glows. The education bills coming out of conservative state legislatures are just making it worse. One of the many many ongoing disasters conservative right wing fuckery has brought us. Like for-profit hospitals leaving people to die on the street.
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That’s another crazy thing about this story. Even when we’ve had a patient leave AMA (against medical advice), we always remove our devices from the patients ALWAYS. The hospital in this story fucked up and needs to be held accountable. They treated him like trash. There is no way that they can spin this so that they do not look like the horrible entity that they are
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