Hospital’s board loses 1 member
Health: Trustees cite benefits of affiliation deal
Sat, 02/27/2010 - 00:49
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SIERRA VISTA — The Sierra Vista Regional Health Center’s board of trustees lost one of its physician members who resigned because he disagreed with partnering with Carondelet Health Network.
In his letter to the trustees, Dr. Ralph E. Mayberry, the only member of the board to vote against entering an agreement with the Catholic health care system, said eliminating the availability of safe sterilization procedures at the community-based health center is wrong.
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So, which doctors have tubal ligations at their offices? The last article
mentioned Dr. Silva (my OBGYN) not doing them there, the same goes for Dr.
Kacenga. That Dr. Funckes doesn’t do them either I heard, so who does?
Well, Wildfire, you & I have finally hit common ground. In a simple
statement, “Obamacare’s gonna kill us!”. Ironically, coincidentally (???) a
new “study” is suggesting changing the guidelines when women should have
their baseline mammogram. Same thing is happening with the PSA guidelines. I
guess they figure if they screen us later more of us will die & they won’t
have to provide health benefits. Healthcare reform, ha!!! Insurance profits &
government ripoffs!!!! Someone put healthcare back into the hands of the
providers.
It has nothing to do with the Obama or the current healthcare legislation. It
is responsible for changes in recommended PSA and mammogram testing. “U.S.
Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), first convened by the U.S. Public
Health Service in 1984, and since 1998 sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality (AHRQ), is the leading independent panel of
private-sector experts in prevention and primary care. The USPSTF conducts
rigorous, impartial assessments of the scientific evidence for the
effectiveness of a broad range of clinical preventive services, including
screening, counseling, and preventive medications. Its recommendations are
considered the “gold standard” for clinical preventive services.” It actually
independant of the government.
Hear the uproar the denial of only ONE, elective procedure, which affects
only a TINY percentage of patients, at ONE little hospital, has caused? What
if you wanted a tubal, but your “designated for treatment’ hospital
didn’t ALLOW tubals; and ObamaKare didn’t allow you to switch hospitals?
What if instead of just tubals, the new policy denied mammograms for those
younger than 50? (My great-aunt died at 38 from breast cancer.) Denied cancer
treatment for anyone under 16 or over 60? Forced abortions for those with
more than 1 child? Or FORCED tubals for women after they have had a second
children? Do you REALLY KNOW what you are supporting and how it will affect
YOU and your loved ones? Have you honestly READ for YOURSELF what ObamaKare
will ACTUALLY entail? Maybe it’s time to find out…before it’s too late.
Makes me wonder how many board members or key staff members are Catholic and
really wanted this to happen.
Anyone making the statement that a tubal ligation is a minimally invasive
procedure has not seen one done. Nor have they been in on such a procedure
when the trocar which is used to enter the peritoneal cavity (an invasive
action) perforates a major blood vessel or a vital organ. Woman are counseled
and they consult to a tubal well before the actual Caesarean. Those who
regret their decision had plenty of time to think about it while their
hormones were still in check. It costs minimally less to have the tubal done
while having a C-section than having it done in the doctor’s office later.
You don’t get charged the actual cost of the tubal because it is being done
during the C-section (called bundling charges). And your abdomen is not being
invaded twice. This decision by the hospital stinks!
Every surgery has risks. Two surgeries are twice as risky as one. Imagine
that malpractice insurance could be more costly for the OB/GYNs who perform
ligations in their offices rather than in a hospital. And that cost would be
passed on to the patient, naturally. I have read the Ethical and Religious
Directives for Catholic Healthcare Services, and directive #31 states to
provide “equal employment opportunities for anyone qualified for the task
irrespective of a person’s race, sex, age, national origin, or disability”.
Note that there is no mention of equal opportunity irregardles of religion!
And how ugly and underhanded not to include our OB/GYNs when looking for a
hospital partner! After all they have done for us women, and all the money
they have brought to the hospital. Shame on SVRHC!!! As the only hospital in
our very diverse community SVRHC has a moral obligation to remain free of
religious directives.
What we are talking about, is a procedure that affects a VERY SMALL
percentage of patients, at a VERY SMALL hospital. Yet we are hearing cries in
support for ObamaKare that offer’s the potential for far more problems than
this local partnership. If banning sterilization causes such an uproar; what
will limited and refused service do?
Your experience was obviously different than those I know. One of them was my
sister, and I was close with her during her care. Perhaps some heal quicker,
complain less, or have a successful procedure that doesn’t result in a major
perforation. Every outcome is different and those that choose to do something
they think is right at the time sometimes regret their decision later - no
matter what it is - and no matter how normal their hormones are. I am taking
the opportunity to see what this decision does for the community. But then
again, I am a little more positive than a lot on here. I’ve heard time and
again, bigger hospitals = better care. That’s definately not always the case
due to personal expereince. Now that it looks like the local facility has
decided to look towards the future and partner with a big city health care
group - people are complaining. This aint’ Burger King guys - you can’t
always have it your way. We have to take the good with the changes.
however her’s was one case. One example of a presume a healthy woman
undergoing a procedure in a doctor’s office does not mean that the same
procedure on a DIFERENT woman would end the SAME way.