W.Va. Strike doctors on insurance costs
The hospitals are in Wheeling, in the northern part of the state sandwiched between Pennsylvania and Ohio. You now have the transfer of emergency operations at another location and to end the procedure provided at the end of the strike by doctors who have planned, are at the end of the month, officials said.
“This is an emergency,” said Dr. Donald Hofreuter, Chief Executive of Wheeling-hospital, from Wednesday noon had a patient after surgery at a hospital in Morgantown, about 80 km.
Eighteen surgeons at the hospital went Wheeling, Wednesday, including all those who, in general, orthopedic and cardiac surgery, Hofreuter said.
Ohio Valley Medical Center, 13 surgeons lack a multitude of fields, including education and cardiovascular surgery, spokesman Howard Gamble said. His urgency is to remain open throughout the strike, but patients need additional care are transported to a hospital in the border in Ohio, he said. CRISIS COVERAGE
The American Medical Association says 12 countries face a crisis of medical coverage because of the magnitude of errors art Free: New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, Texas , Nevada, Oregon and Washington. Three countries, Indiana, Wisconsin and Louisiana, have legislation aimed at reducing the abuse of insurance costs.
Source: WADA
As Wednesday morning, the hospital are still not enough time for the transfer of anyone, “said Gamble.
Eight surgeons from different departments was awarded to Reynolds Memorial Hospital, a nursing coach said there, but did not have time to transfer all patients as a result of the action.
Weirton Medical Center is also affected by the strike, but it was an official comment Wednesday.
Surgeons of all requests sent to 30 days in the absence of disease leaves their homes, with an option to extend for 30 days.
Hospitals - which there were increased costs similar to their own mistakes medical insurance art - say they expect that surgeons back before the end of January, if not already, as the governor of the state legislature and the new labour legislation What is now at a crisis.
Theme familiar PA
PA, a situation similar to Tuesday Dir chosen Ed Rendell proposed a $ 220 million bailout to 42 doctors to stop erratically. The doctors submitted a neurosurgeon orthopedists to ob-gyns, have also protested the high cost of medical care for lack of insurance. (Full story)
Tony Gregory, a spokesman for the West Virginia Hospital Association, a nonprofit of any State Group, said the flooding is a slow turning point in his State.
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