Then why is it that quite a lot of surgeries and trauma victims have to be flown out? Can they not attract enough or the proper surgeons? Can they not handle a lot of the trauma levels that occur?
Did you read KK's post, if you did what part DID you understand?
Did understand: SMH is classified as a hospital and they are a L3 trauma center.
Same reason you don't get a engine rebuild at Midas muffler, even though they work on cars.
What exactly do you expect a somewhat rural hospital's staff to cover? Should they have a neonatal neurosurgeon on staff?
Then it shouldn't be called St Mary's HOSPITAL. It should be called St Mary's Urgent Care Plus
Just because you believe you know everything about everything and are unwilling to admit that you may not be as informed as you believe yourself to be doesn't make you an expert on every topic known to humanity.
But since you seem to be the expert on EVERTHING... do enlighten us "know nothings" on how the medical system works everywhere in this country... I'll wait
I hope you are doing well.
Thank you!
You would have to be a total moron not to understand that, I spent over 2 weeks interviewing cardiac nurses and patients before I had my bypass done at WHC. Glad I did I was in and out in four days with a quintuple bypass. Still kicking too.
Short answer is that it has nothing to do with attracting or not the needed staff. The State of Maryland through the Maryland Health Care Commission decides what services are offered at what hospitals as well as how many beds will be authorized among other things.
So happy they caught it in time. My mom broke her foot years ago and ended up getting a blood clot that went to her lungs. She threw up blood and passed out at work so she was rushed to the hospital. Grandmother's twin sister broke her foot and died from a blood clot. Those things are no joke.
WOW! Thank you for being the first and only to provide the information for me to look up and answer my questions. I was able to find answers for my questions instead of just reading "I know everything and you don't so you are dumb!"Short answer is that it has nothing to do with attracting or not the needed staff. The State of Maryland through the Maryland Health Care Commission decides what services are offered at what hospitals as well as how many beds will be authorized among other things.
MHCC Overview
An overview of the Maryland Health Care Commission, brief description of the centers and managing resultsmhcc.maryland.gov
If you weren't a moron you could have found it yourself.
Wow! Wonderful government solving all our problems for us!Short answer is that it has nothing to do with attracting or not the needed staff. The State of Maryland through the Maryland Health Care Commission decides what services are offered at what hospitals as well as how many beds will be authorized among other things.
MHCC Overview
An overview of the Maryland Health Care Commission, brief description of the centers and managing results
Having some oversight makes sense. Calvert Memorial (I refuse to call it Calvert Health Systems) started having delusions of grandeur about thirty years ago and started to lose sight of what it was, a small rural hospital that was able to take care of 95% of what came to them and the doctors knew enough to know that. Then they started to change and try to be more than they were. Hospitals across the US are closing because they expanded and can't fill their beds.
