BREAKING NEWS UPDATE: Indian Path Pavilion To Close
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Indian Path Pavilion To Close
Indian Path Pavilion will be closed within the next 2 months.
Indian Path Pavilion in Kingsport offers mental and substance abuse services to patients. On Friday Mountain States Health Alliance announced that this facility will close.
“It became apparent that we could no longer sustain two inpatient facilities 26 miles apart and after looking at the financials it became apparent that we needed to close Indian Path Pavilion,“ said Ann Fleming, Mountain States Health Alliance senior vice president.
Now, patients who received care at Indian Path Pavilion will be treated at Woodridge Hospital in Johnson City. 114 people work at Indian Path Pavilion. Fleming said efforts will be made to move as many of these employees to other positions within the company. Fleming said state funding cuts are a big reason why they are closing Indian Path Pavilion.
“It started about a year ago with the decrease in reimbursement from TennCare and the reimbursement issues that’s facing us all as part of healthcare reform,“ Fleming said.
Fleming also told 11 Connects that closing Indian Path Pavilion will not affect patient care.
“Behavioral services is a very needed service in this region, we know we are the primary provider for that, it is our mission to serve the citizens in our area for behavioral health services, but we wanted to be able to do it in a way that we could sustain it into the future,“ said Fleming.
All mental and substance abuse services at Indian Path Pavilion will be consolidated to Woodridge Hospital over the next two months.
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First, let me say I hope the best for all the dedicated employees at this facility. In general there is no one more dedicated than the front line health care worker. For about the past year or so we’ve seen hundreds of folks in the area losing their jobs and health insurance.
Second, mismanagement and abuse has taken down the financial and automotive functions in this country so why should we expect health care to escape? These costs have risen twice that of inflation the past few years, and the US currently spend twice that per person on health care than the other modernized countries. Individuals and employers cannot continue the accelerated insurance costs as the uninsured numbers continue to rise. Unless someone comes up with a better plan to change this upward trend to a downward trend, ObamaCare (whatever that comes out to be) is the only alternative out there.
ObamaCare is the beginning of the end.
Nurses on the frontlines of patient care see the impact of healthcare cuts. The greatest part of their time is spent at the bedside. We are continually expected to do more with less. The nurse to patient ratio is ridiculious. Many nurses I work with shoulder to shoulder everyday are leaving the nursing profession. Those who stay at the bedside limit the number of hours they work.
Physicians are doubling their patient load in order to keep their practices above water.
Healthcare needs reformed…I agree but Paya Tenchun is correct the government can’t manage Medicare or the VA system. I can’t imagine the government doing a better job with ObamaCare.
This is only the beginning if ObamaCare gets through Congress. Payments to hospitals would be cut, necessarily resulting in fewer Dr.s and nurses per patient and a lower quality of care. The elderly would see the most harm, and Medicare Advantage policies are already being targeted by the decision-makers.
The health care system may need some reforms, but the Trojan Horse of the “public option” will result in insurance companies getting out of the field, and eventual total government control. This is not the answer.
If government can’t manage Medicare and the VA hospital system, why would their take-over of the entire field be any better?
We can’t afford ObamaCare.
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