It's just a great big national, tax paid, health care hospital!  What will they do IF obama care doesn't go through? It appears that they counted their chixs before they hatched. Or perhaps they are just preparing for the inevitable.

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It's just a great big national, tax paid, health care hospital!  What will they do IF obama care doesn't go through? It appears that they counted their chixs before they hatched. Or perhaps they are just preparing for the inevitable.

They dont have to count SQUAT....this is fat-old NYS gumba gangstas shining their shoes.....and
the fat-old Schenectady county gumba gangstas.......

The FEDS ARE counting on the States to weave a 'grassroots' fabric of sorts.......Schenectady county
is GROUND ZERO......

ASK THEM ABOUT THE INSURANCE REGULATIONS-----SHOW ME THE $$ TRAIL....SHOW ME THE $$ TRAIL....

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SCHENECTADY
Ellis Medicine CEO lists hospital plans
Impact of recession, health care legislation topics
BY MICHAEL GOOT Gazette Reporter
Reach Gazette reporter Michael Goot at 395-3105 or mgoot@dailygazette.net.

    The recession is having an impact on local health care as Ellis Medicine plans major changes in the coming years, its chief executive officer said Thursday.
    President and CEO James Connolly said people start to neglect their health care during tough economic times.
    “ M R I s a r e down 20 percent. People are calling up saying ‘I just lost my job. I just lost my insurance. I can’t come in for the exam,’ ” Connolly told about 50 people at a Chamber of Schenectady County breakfast at the Ellis Health Center on McClellan Street.
    Connolly said he estimates that the hospital will have to write off about $16 million this year in care for people who did not pay.
    Connolly also touched on the health care debate in Washington, which he said could create the perfect storm for hospitals. Health care costs as a share of gross domestic product have tripled in 50 years. “If this continues, the state budget cost of health care will double in 10 years,” he said.
    Connolly called health care cost increases unsustainable.
    From 45 million to 47 million Americans do not have health insurance. If health coverage is expanded, Connolly said, more people will use health care services, which increases cost.
    The House of Representatives’ version of the health care reform bill contains cuts to Medicare and Medicaid and an income tax surcharge on the wealthy, according to Connolly.
    The Senate version is also paid for with cuts to those programs and a tax on expensive health care plans. However, he said, that generates only about $200 billion to $300 billion in savings and the estimated cost of expanding coverage is about $1 trillion.
    If the bills are passed and signed into law, Connolly said, he sees a shift toward high-deductible insurance plans that have people pay out of pocket for most things except for catastrophic expenses. He also fears that Medicare cuts may drive some doctors out of Medicare. ................>>>>...............>>>>.................http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r01300&AppName=1

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Connolly said he estimates that the hospital will have to write off about $16 million this year in care for people who did not pay.

WOW....the hospital 'lost' $16M and yet can still expand multiple locations!!! Guess things are that bad in obama's health care world, huh?

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CAPITAL REGION
Ellis praised for unifying hospitals
Report cites value of area facilities
BY TATIANA ZARNOWSKI Gazette Reporter

    Ellis Hospital was recognized by a nonprofit health care organization for effi ciencies gained when the Schenectady hospital merged with St. Clare’s and Bellevue Women’s Center.
    The Healthcare Association of New York’s recent economic report mentioned Ellis as one of several hospitals in the state with positive community health programs.
    St. Mary’s Hospital in Amsterdam also was mentioned because of its outreach program, helping about 500 people sign up for state-sponsored health insurance a year.
    And three of Albany’s hospitals, Albany Memorial, St. Peter’s and Albany Medical Center, were recognized, respectively, for programs raising awareness about heart disease and diabetes, promoting tobacco-free facilities and grounds and creating a training program to care for patients who have endured sexual assault.
    The report said hospitals and health systems provide more than 686,000 jobs statewide and generate $108 billion in economic activity.
    In the Capital Region, hospitals and health systems are responsible for 32,250 jobs and $3.8 billion in economic activity.
    “Hospitals clearly serve as economic anchors of New York state,” HANYS president Daniel Sisto said in a statement. “Not only do they always stand ready to aid us in times of crisis; they sustain and support the livelihoods of thousands of local families.”
    Thirty hospitals have closed over the last 10 years around the state, and health care providers have seen $5.3 billion in cuts in the last three years, putting the industry at risk if there are more cuts, Sisto said.
    For Ellis, the mergers in 2007 and 2008 with Bellevue and St. Clare’s made Ellis the only show in town. And that brought a special responsibility, said Ellis spokeswoman Donna Evans.
    The hospital then opened its medical home at the former St. Clare’s Hospital. The Cushing Center for Family Medicine at Ellis Health Center provides primary care, outpatient services and decides which patients to send to the emergency room.
    It accepts patients regardless of whether they have insurance. ......................>>>>.................>>>>.............................http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r00702&AppName=1

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Ellis Hospital plan on agenda at Wed. session
BY KATHLEEN MOORE Gazette Reporter
Reach Gazette reporter Kathleen Moore at 395-3120 or moore@dailygazette.com.

The hospital wants to expand its emergency room and add a parking garage with 94 spaces at its Nott Street campus.
    Neighbors have complained about the hospital’s ever-expanding parking lots, but they have also complained that there are too few spaces on campus for employees. Some employees park along the nearby residential streets, lining each street with cars, rather than park at distant employee lots and take the hospital’s shuttle to work.
    The emergency room expansion will allow the hospital to finish consolidating services once offered by both Ellis and St. Clare’s hospitals.
    When Ellis took over the city’s medical services, wait times at the ER spiked and the hospital quickly added more beds. It also kept open the ER at the former St. Clare’s on McClellan Street and created a special system to transport patients quickly from St. Clare’s to Ellis if they needed to be hospitalized.
    The former St. Clare’s ER may become an urgent care center once Ellis expands its ER.

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They should keep it the way it is, ER's at both hospitals. Just having one will create longer waiting times, and they are allready long.

Welcome to the new health-care system of the future, hurry up and wait for treatment.

each place is for different kinds of treatments...and dont worry the ambulance(first responders) will be mobile ERs......as some already are....