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Patients' stays extended to raise revenues

 


hoodna
While reading the paper today i came across this little jem

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/871813.html


Quote:
Psychiatric hospital nurses: Patients' stays extended to raise revenues

By Fadi Ayadat, Haaretz Correspondent

Care providers at the psychiatric hospital in Tirat Carmel have stated that the hospital's policy is to extend patients' hospital stays as long as possible in order to raise revenue, often times against the patient's own best interests.

Two senior nurses at the hospital stated that their institution's policy was to stretch as many hospitalization days as possible out of each patient and to try to discharge as few as possible.

"We spoke to the administration and told them that we were hospitalizing patients that don't need our treatment," said one of the two nurses. The nurse stated that a department head told him in response that "If we do otherwise, we won't have any work. This is our livelihood."




This is ssssssssooooooooo tipical hear in israel !!!!!!!!!!!
suntzu3500
It probably happens around the world. Israel isn't the only country obsessed with money, that would be the entire world... Except Bhutan. Let's all move to Bhutan and make it a capitalist democracy! Wouldn't that be sweet! Razz
Tim Graham
I take it you don't have public healthcare in Israel? I suppose that in a vital service like that it can be difficult to seperate the money and welfare elements - that's not to say I condone what is happening, it's just the nature of business.
roboguyspacedude
That is common. It is also medical malpractice. The hospital/med centers need money and that is why hospital bills are so expensive. It would probably be better just to learn basic first aid to save as many trips as possible.
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