Healthcare, Hospitals and the Uninsured

Paper Summary:

The paper focuses on the Sidonia Psychiatric Care Center, an acute inpatient care facility for adults, adolescents and children. The paper discusses how the facility had to adjust from a largely insured patient population, to a largely Medicare, Medicaid and uninsured population. The paper describes the difficulty in running Sidonia with such high running costs. The paper warns that while the debate continues daily about what to do about the uninsured in America, hospitals, especially specialty care like Sidonia, are getting closer to closing their doors to inpatient care altogether.

Outline:
Ten Years Ago
Today
Staffing
The Future

From the Paper:

"Sidonia Psychiatric Care Center is licensed for 110 beds, but utilize only 100 of those beds. They are an acute inpatient care facility for adults, adolescents, and children. This includes a dual diagnosis ward for adult drug and alcohol patients whose primary diagnosis is a psychiatric diagnosis, but whose secondary diagnosis is one of drug and alcohol abuse and addiction. Sidonia has been in operation for more than 20 years, since the middle 1980s, which is the halfway point between the emergence of managed care and overhaul of existing group plans, which evolved into today's managed care programs and the representative group benefit plans, which are vastly different than those of the 1980s."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Coalition Champions Uninsured in U.S. Plan Combines Federal Programs, Tax Incentives. (2007, January 19). The Washington Times, p. C08. Retrieved December 9, 2007, from Questia database: http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=5018969240

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