A Different Future – Part III Prescriptions for Public Facilities

In Part I of this series, I described what I believe to be the major challenges facing public hospitals in an environment in which all or most US citizens and legal immigrants have some form of health insurance. Apparently, my comments offended some of the leaders of our local public hospital system who, I assume, interpreted my thoughts as an attack upon them. Nothing could be further from the truth. I work in the emergency department at Lyndon B Johnson general hospital and I love doing so. I work with a group of talented and dedicated nurses who are the equal of any emergency nurses anywhere. I have spent lots of time with the administrators at the Harris County Hospital District and they too are dedicated people who are trying to deliver health care to a large group of needy people on a limited budget. But, I do stand by... continue reading...