UNC Chapel Hill treats those unable to pay for their care elsewhere. They have clinics for Family Medicine and those with low income can receive excellent care. That has not only been good for the poor of North Carolina, it has been good for the Hospital University system. They have some of the most impoverished in the state to treat. It hones the skills of the residents and interns because of all the complications the poor frequently carry as their exclusive problems.
...UNC Hospitals (click here) reported last year that it expected to lose about $300 million in charity care expenses, or one-fifth of the hospital’s total operating expenses. But McCall said the hospital has been able to make money above their expenses despite spending even more on compensated care, freeing up extra funds for UNC.
...UNC Hospitals (click here) reported last year that it expected to lose about $300 million in charity care expenses, or one-fifth of the hospital’s total operating expenses. But McCall said the hospital has been able to make money above their expenses despite spending even more on compensated care, freeing up extra funds for UNC.
“I think it’s very reflective of how strong our partnership is with the UNC system and UNC-Chapel Hill,” she said. “There’s certainly acknowledgement on our part of the benefits derived from being part of the UNC system.”
The Radical Republican Governor and Legislature think nothing of cutting funding to a very valuable university system. The medical school would lose some of the quality of the educational experience to these valuable people soon to be in private practice in the state and elsewhere in the USA. So, the hospital management is forced to look at increased costs and/or cutting other hospital services to be sure they can continue their good work as a university.
UNC Family Medicine is ranked 2nd in the nation. That would end if it were up to the Radical Governor and his legislature. They are destroying the state's status across the board. It would be immediately measurable if the professionals managing this university system wasn't as good as they were.
The reason the Radical Republicans of North Carolina values these cuts is because the poor are stereotyped as lazy, etc. Anyone can ask the management of UNC-Chapel Hill Healthcare and they will tell you, these folks are lazy, they are ill.
Wake-Forest is also a magnificent university hospital in North Carolina. This medical center is complaining about the ongoing state support for UNC Chapel Hill and Rex Healthcare. But, this should not be competition, it should be mutually provided for by the state funding. The Charity Care at WakeMed is just as important as that at UNC-Chapel Hill. Both these healthcare systems are now under more stress and involved with competition for funding that should not exist.
When it comes to quality health care it should never be a matter of competition, but, only competency. With these new cuts at UNC Chapel Hill, the folks at Wake will find they have no complaints anymore.
Lee Weisbecker
Feb 11, 2011, 6:00am EST
The Radical Republican Governor and Legislature think nothing of cutting funding to a very valuable university system. The medical school would lose some of the quality of the educational experience to these valuable people soon to be in private practice in the state and elsewhere in the USA. So, the hospital management is forced to look at increased costs and/or cutting other hospital services to be sure they can continue their good work as a university.
UNC Family Medicine is ranked 2nd in the nation. That would end if it were up to the Radical Governor and his legislature. They are destroying the state's status across the board. It would be immediately measurable if the professionals managing this university system wasn't as good as they were.
The reason the Radical Republicans of North Carolina values these cuts is because the poor are stereotyped as lazy, etc. Anyone can ask the management of UNC-Chapel Hill Healthcare and they will tell you, these folks are lazy, they are ill.
Wake-Forest is also a magnificent university hospital in North Carolina. This medical center is complaining about the ongoing state support for UNC Chapel Hill and Rex Healthcare. But, this should not be competition, it should be mutually provided for by the state funding. The Charity Care at WakeMed is just as important as that at UNC-Chapel Hill. Both these healthcare systems are now under more stress and involved with competition for funding that should not exist.
When it comes to quality health care it should never be a matter of competition, but, only competency. With these new cuts at UNC Chapel Hill, the folks at Wake will find they have no complaints anymore.
Lee Weisbecker
Feb 11, 2011, 6:00am EST
RALEIGH – The total cost of charity care (click here) absorbed by WakeMed dipped by 2 percent last year, but the health care system’s executives contend that the medical complex remains the Triangle’s key provider for the uninsured and indigent.
To bolster their point, they turn to the mass of 2008 data used by the N.C. Division of Medical Assistance in drafting the state’s 2010 health plan. As a percentage of total facility costs, the charity care bite at WakeMed’s Raleigh campus stood at 11 percent that year.
By contrast, at UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill, the charity care cost was 6.9 percent, and at UNC-owned Rex Hospital in Raleigh, it was 4.7 percent, according to the data, the latest available.
Given the state’s ongoing financial support of the UNC Health Care system, WakeMed CEO Bill Atkinson has been offering increasing criticism of what he calls an “unfair playing field.”
