Saving Money or Lives - the Health Care Conundrum
Saving Money or Lives - the Health Care Conundrum
CHICAGO, July 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following was released today by SAVE THE PATIENT:
State budget cuts are impacting mental and physical health care services at agencies statewide. Grants have dried up for local mental health centers cutting services for patients who desperately need them.
On Monday, July 26 at 6:00pm Chicago Access Network (CAN-TV), Channel 21, will air a live call-in program, "Community Health," which will focus on how state budget cuts impact health care services in our communities.
Host Lenore Janecek, president and founder of SAVE THE PATIENT, will discuss with board member Nancy Churchill, recently laid off from her job as Coordinator of the 13th Judicial Circuit Family Violence Prevention Council, how these draconian cuts have reduced social services that children and families depend on every day and how to work together to find solutions.
Viewers are encouraged to join in the program by calling-in their questions.
To access its website, go to www.savethepatient.org.
For additional information call: CAN-TV at 312-738-1400, or email: savethepatient@aol.com .
SAVE THE PATIENT is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the support and education of individuals on health care matters. Founded in 2001 to fulfill the need for a non-biased, non-commercial community based non-profit organization to educate, inform, and empower patients as they attempt to make sound health care decisions, SAVE THE PATIENT provides information and education through patient advocacy, community outreach, educational seminars and its signature tool: the Health Caring Card.
Source: SAVE THE PATIENT
CONTACT: Lenore Janecek of SAVE THE PATIENT, +1-312-399-3532 or
savethepatient@aol.com
Web Site: http://www.savethepatient.org/
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Having gone to Providence St Josephs Hospital Emergency Room in Burbank California, relaying my symptoms to the doctor in my Queens English accent (I have lived in Los Angeles for 35 years), I was asked where was I born, and nothing about my symptoms. After that the doctor assumed I had no insurance, which I did have, after asking me who my doctor was, to which I replied that at the Saban Free Clinic I have never had a regular doctor. After a minimal examination lasting no more than 10 seconds he told me that he would let the Free Clinic sort me out, and without giving any diagnosis, left the room. I stumbled out onto the street to look for a taxi and the following day was diagnosed by a clinic doctor for diverticulitis and treated and referred to County emergency. I received a bill from Providence St. Josephs for nearly a thousand dollars.
I still am wondering if my place of birth could be a symptom of diverticulitis, or of discrimination based on country of origin, and whether people with foreign accents have more chance of dying from lack of emergency treatment. Should people wait until they are semi-conscious and unable to speak, to get passed the problem?
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