Atlanta Medical Center closing: Wellstar
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- Опубліковано 30 сер 2022
- Wellstar Health System announced it plans to cease operations at Atlanta Medical Center in November. In a news release, Wellstar said the decision came after "pursuing every opportunity for an alternative path forward."
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I was born there when it was called Georgia Baptist Hospital. Real Atlantean.
Nahhh U still a lame
Me too
My cousins too.
Probably had to change the name to please some democrat🧚♀🧚♀🌈🌈that hates ✝✝
@mq85 Mq85 Wakanadans wanting free gunshot treatment
The hospitals parent company will file bankruotcy soon. Money is being transfered to executives and their wallets as we speak.
At least you have crime disease and diversity
@@silentmajority8365 Crime disease was implanted by feeding drugs and chemicals to the inner city. but i think you knew that already
You were violent failures long before you were plucked from the jungle
Somebody could dump a truckload of guns and drugs in front of my house and I would not touch them
I'd call police to come get them but then I'm not 👨🏿 so I have morals and a higher IQ
Criminal activities at play.👈🧐
@@a.a.a.8365 Capitalism is never good when greed is involved and you are able to make money by putting people's lives in jeopardy. The witting has been on the wall I am sure and nothing was done to prevent this. Will a new health system pick up the property or will it be turned into condominiums?
Oh my. Only Grady left. Awful
Because obviously you guys are clearly not voting so this is what you get....
Hospital closing?
After all that funding given by the govt ❓️🤔
too many gun shots
That’s how they do.
@@silentmajority8365 That and too many dead beat patients not paying their damn bills.
What will replace it? Why can't it just be subsidized by the government or something? If our tax dollars can pay for Ukraine they can pay for a hospital
we have millions not paying taxes in America and not just illegals You wanted open borders and diversity at any cost You got your wish
Too much dead weight
CALL BLM or LA Raza
There’s no such thing as infinite money. When people see essential services and business leave their community, they’re shocked. But you shouldn’t be. If you don’t have a basic understanding of economics you never understand why these things happen. How does the government get its money? From taxes. In order to fund these projects that would mean taxes would have to go up. If you’re paying more money in taxes, that means your standard of living goes down because you now have less money to spend on yourself. To add insult to injury, your money would be going to fund medical care in a community that does nothing to find the legitimate funds to cover the cost themselves, with all the crime, drug dealing, and illegal activity that goes on over there. Do you want your standard of living to go down, along with the available amount of money you can spend on you and your family (disposable income) to fund someone else’s life when they won’t even lift a finger to better themselves? How much of your yearly income are you willing to pay to the government to make this happen? A third? Half? If you think this sounds crazy, it’s not. This is the reality in many countries like Canada, Norway, and Finland. Their tax rates are astronomical! Imagine making $100k a year and bringing home less than $45k. Is that what you want?
The state does send money to the hospitals but it's not enough
I'm sure a hospital system another hospital system will pop up and take its place in the downtown Atlanta area at some point
@@leroyjenkins4811 you had me up until referencing the “crime & illegal activity” as an apparent cause. First of all that has nothing to do with how funding is is given to various parts of the city: funding in US cities is done by the wealth of that specific area which is rooted in racism and classism. Funding should be given to all parts of the community equally so that everyone is given the same chance. This happens back in Chicago however I got news for you as I am from there…no matter where you go in the city with the exception of the white owned catholic hospitals meant for their white congregations…top of the line. So you are completely ass backwards. This community regardless of crimes, it is vital they have a hospital and if you chose to actually do any research at all you would know that this particular hospital had racist staff, seemingly not the best doctors or nurses either, sure they’re not all bad but go check out those reviews….This community should expect a hospital and I hope they get a fantastic one, next step should be ensuring the schools in that neighborhood are up to the same standards as the ones in the nice communities. Not doing so is racist. Everyone is a product of their environment with the exception of the few who miraculously break the mold..you’re not one of those ppl clearly so have some sympathy for your peers. Just because you may have grown up in a nice neighborhood does not mean you deserve better than someone who doesn’t.
Get rid of the dead weight at the top and give the Staff a Chance to run it..
Get rid of the dead weight at the bottom You call it diversity
Wellstar doesn't do charity care
How can this happen,there's got to be a way to help here !
Glad I don't live in Atlanta
I'm glad you don't too.
We don't want you here
Atlanta is one of the greatest city u can live in!! The crimes in Georgia came from peoples moving here and it started from hurricane Katrina
It be ghetto, they don't pay bills free services
It's all those gas station shooting victims filling up the emergency rooms.
We literally shootin each other at gas stations everyday
La Fill up James
Expanding Medicare wouldn’t have saved that hospital. And don’t blame the Republicans either. It’s a matter of economics. The hospital was losing money because they were trying to treat too many uninsured or underinsured minority patients. Medical care cost. It cost the patients and it cost the providers. Supplies, salaries for staff, expertise for specialty care, etc. Medicare wouldn’t have helped because even when a patient has Medicare, Medicare hardly ever covers the full cost of the treatments. There’s the cost the hospital charges for the treatment and then there’s what Medicare will actually pay. Medical providers can either accept or reject the Medicare payments. Medicare actually pays so little (and they take so long to pay due to government backlogs, 6-18 months sometimes. Imagine running your facility at a constant deficit because you can never get paid on time), many providers and doctors refuse to take patients with Medicare. Medicare sucks. Let’s not forget, hasn’t Grady almost closed numerous times in the last few years because they were in debt? When has Grady never been in debt and not operating at a deficit? When the cost of providing medical care exceeds the amount of profit you’re making or you can’t even break even, it’s time to close shop. You can’t afford to stay in business any longer. No one can provide medical care at a loss to themselves. It’s not economically viable.
My suggestion? If you can afford to move out of Fulton county, do it. It’s a sinking ship. I’d rather go to hell than go to Grady. I lived in the metropolitan Atlanta area all my life until about 8 years ago, mostly Fulton and Dekalb counties. I have NEVER set foot in Grady, not even to visit anybody, and I never will. I’ve heard too many horror stories and too many people have died up in there. That place is evil and haunted.
Shut up if those uninsured and underinsured minorities had medicaid, their medical bills would be paid. Dummy
Hahaha seriously unless you live in Macon which has a level 1 Trauma Center or Savannah and you get in a really serious car accident your ass is going in the back of grading now because it lend a medical center is closed almost wish that would happen
Awesome Response.
You forgot the 20 to 30 illegal aliens each of these hospitals treat every day--every bill on average is about 7k--so you can times that number by 20 to 30 each day--in addition to what you described.And yes Fulton county is now a liberal hellhole that is collapsing--i left ATL in 2008 after they kept raising taxes and calling good ol whiteys racist for every probelm.buckhead and johns creek are also actively pursuing breaking off from Fulton and with good reason--all they do is take our money and call us racists as they give medical care and other freebies to not only freeloaders--but to anyone around the world that can get there.bTW goto any of these hospitals and it will look like the open border--I also would never use these hospitals.Took a roomate once for food poisoning in 2007--7 hour wait and she got a bag of IV fluid and anti nausea pill and a 4k effing bill so she could pay for all the freeloaders and illegals that were there.owebamacare--medicare--medicaid--these libs do not realize they pay pennies on the dollar and reimburse so low that the hospital loses money on it.Doing 2k worth of work on someone and then medicaid pays the hospital 75 dollars--then people who pay wonder why a broken foot generates a 35k bill.
this is totally on Republicans and governor Kemp, they don't care about healthcare
If this happens you will go from a 3 tier city to a 1 tier.
Liberal tiers 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Damn this is going to be worldwide
🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Unbelievable. Bet they’ll convert the buildings into expensive condominiums
WOW
Who is going to treat all those gun shot victims that don't have medical insurance? FJB!
That's y y'all need to vote
Wow
Good they broke my daughter femur bone during c section just wrapped her up and gave her too me then gave me gauze to take home and wrap her leg up I was so scared
1:33 Is this like saying showing I.D. to vote is racist she said ?
Just blame a Republican
I'm a Grady patient, and I can say this Grady have saved millions of lives from Cancer, heart attack, strokes, kidney failures, aneurysm, gunshot wounds, etc
@@cinderella23queen37 and is gone from treating all those gun shot wounds
Enjoy
Funny they want ID to use your constitutional rights like buy a gun or travel by plane but its racist when voting
They just want felons illegals and dead people voting
@@cinderella23queen37 And they could save so many more if it were not flooded by illegals--but you do not care and saying what i said is racist--you libs take over and give everyone everything for free.
@@cinderella23queen37 Abrams is silly to say expand Medicaid. Medicaid doesn't pay enough to keep the doors open. Also, Medicaid has limited services. They are not paying for non-emergency ER visits. There are plenty of places in downtown Atlanta that serve the community for non-emergency issues for free.
WOW that's what is hall and habersham getting
Those gunshot wounds must be expensive.
sreggiN won't stop shooting
Kemp never cared and never will
No politician cares about you! Wake up!
Neither do I...I pay my bills! Dead beats.
How come everything near Stacey Abrams die?
President Trump,said it best. “Everything the Democrats touch turns to s#!+. You want political change to happen, stop voting for Democrats. You keep voting for Democrats and nothing ever changes. They promise you a bunch of free stuff they couldn’t possibly deliver in exchange for your vote yet you never get anything that actually helps you and you’re not in a position to help yourself. Yet you’re too afraid to vote for Republicans and capitalism because of so-called racism, when in fact, the Democrats are the most racist of all, considering they are the political party that supported keeping slavery an institution, started the civil war, and opposed every piece of civil rights legislation up until the ‘60. These are historical facts. The Democrats never stopped being racist. They just changed tactics to hide it better. And don’t think just because they have a few token blacks working for them that anything has changed. Those blacks (like Stacy Abrams) don’t care about black people. If she did, she’d be trying to lower crime in these areas, increase school standards, bring in businesses so people can have jobs, and provide funding for better policing. Instead she’s trying to expand welfare and social services to keep people useless and dependent upon the state. Stacy Abrams and the Democrats are not friends to blacks and minorities.
What?
lol!
Or she eats it.
Thts y ur supposed to chrge copays!shut down the one in griffin,ga..its TRASH
The whole wellstar system is turning to trash in BLACk areas specifically. But, why, pray tell?
Profits! I recommend investing in these systems, they will provide a great return on investment, and you may not have to burn furniture for warmth this winter.
Happy racist medical Care!
This is the result of free.
Yep. Wellstar rather stay up north and do business.
This is all by design. They want people to freak out and support socialism health-care.
@@53zwitt I agree. Time for us to really take care of ourselves and stop relying 100% on the Healthcare system. They are all about profit.
thank Brian Kemp for this closing, he's the governor
Thank the Atlanta government. They keep people poor and crime infested. Medicaid can't keep the hospital open. Medicaid pays very little. Socialist health care equals death. Atlanta city government needs to act.
No, thanks to dead beat democrats not paying their bills.
Yup nobody wants to say that part. R black ppl in Georgia afraid of something???? Like GA been republican for years and years now.... Can we go vote please....
@@dontreldontrel416 Yeah. The Democrats are going to save the day. Democrats run the city, and they are broke.
@@lc6636 ummm not true.
Free service doesn't work go figure all poor blacks in the hood and all the prisoners from all the jails, I went there that's how I know
Wellstar is making right decision
The same con game
I thought BoboCare had us all covered! LOL
🤣
"Deathstar" health system
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@@lanceo1478 After dealing with them for four years, their rude ass untrained employees etc, I wouldnt send my enemies dog to Wellstar hospital. Total garbage repackaged with a Shiney label stamped " healthcare" . Zero stars do not reccommend
Red State Kemp help your state
Who else thinks Wellstar should be investigated?
For what?
Oh no. 😔 They saved my life. 🙏🏾
Saved mine also
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