Jackson Jambalaya

Does Greenwood have a large population decline? I visited recently for a week long work trip, and the town seems to by dying.

Health care is stuck in the past. Mississippi needs triage centers that would then transfer patients to hospitals. There cannot be a fully staffed hospital in every town.

Not to worry, as Uncle Bennie will fix it.

"Does Greenwood have a large population decline? I visited recently for a week long work trip, and the town seems to by dying.

November 4, 2022 at 4:36 PM"

G'wood has been dying since 1980. It's not in much worse shape now than 40 years ago. Most patients are Medicaid/Medicare and those reimbursements are not enough.

4:36, Greenwood has been on "life support" since Fred Carl sold Viking.

4:41 seems to make sense. But Kingfish has no desire for these threads to attract posts that make sense.

@4:43 Certainly you jest; name just one productive thing Bennie has done for the betterment of his constituents.

A far better telling of this sad story is in the Greenwood Commonwealthhttps://www.gwcommonwealth.com/local-content-top-stories/greenwood-hospital-tries-buy-more-time-another-round-layoffs#sthash.J9PDVme7.dpbs

@9:38 PM Sarcasm - embrace it. ("Uncle" Bennie should have been a clue, genius.)

Until brain drain is fixed, communities in our State are going to continue to decline.

Maybe county leaders should regard providing medical services as the primary purpose of these local hospitals (which need to be clinics instead) rather than being a county controlled job service that provides medical services on the side. They had the chance to sell this hospital a few years ago, have it operated by someone who knows what they are doing, providing what they can locally and cutting what they can't. But, no. The stupervisors had to keep control of their jobs program. And now, everyone is at risk of losing medical services and jobs. This scenario repeats over and over all over our state. It's a consequence of supervisors who probably have a 34 IQ, medical providers who don't want the gravy train to end, and addiction to a 1968 medical services model. You can't fix stupid -- but, plenty of people want you to fund stupid.

Does Greenwood have a large population decline?

Population loss is the core problem facing all of these rural hospitals.

No amount of subsidies, financial backstopping or medicaid expansion resolves the core problem.

The days where rural America was dotted with full spectrum hospitals are long gone.

Time to think out of the box.

https://www.hubcityspokes.com/local-content-top-stories/greenwood-hospital-tries-buy-more-time-another-round-layoffs-63655234ed1ac#sthash.GXlKh5pl.dpbs

This just shows that Jackson doesn't have a monopoly on clown show administrations. This is due to a segment of the Leflore county board of supervisors insisting that UMMC's name be removed from the proposal to supply their portion of the $9.1 million needed to complete the agreement. They stated they didn't want to limit their options on who to lease the hospital. Like they had a plan B. Sure do wish they would have had more adults in the room.
YOU CAN"T MAKE THIS STUFF UP

@7:36 pm: Uninsured is what you mean. Half of the adults under 65 in that ER have no coverage and aren’t eligible for Medicaid. The uninsured poor are what is killing these hospitals. If they all had Medicare or Medicaid, this crisis would not be happening. Speaking as a healthcare provider to a lot of poor people.

Not to worry. This is where Quentin W. will jump in and save it. Ask around.

I assume UMMC wanted GLH as a teaching "clinic" for their training programs which would imply faculty would be present as well. That is the only way I can think of as to why they would want it and the only way that they could attract a different patient mix that is costing GLH millions. I can remember years ago, Charlie Capps wanted UMMC to take of the Cleveland hospital (Bolivar County, maybe??) Their board of Supervisors called upon the AG and the AG said it must go the bid process. Killed it on the spot, IIRC.

10:12am You are right.
What's missing in the discussion of our health care woes is why local hospitals that existed were structured and financed. Most were "county" hospitals.
Neither hospitals nor physicians used the business model for operations but rather a professional model.
Quality of service and expertise of the professional dictated profit, and general physicians were trained , for example, to do all bone surgery, not just and arm or leg or knee or hip...only the spine and skull needed specialty is that tricky.

As another mentioned, local hospitals were generalists and patients needing specialized care were sent to the large teaching medical hospitals.

It's the most economic means for medical care costs but not for profits. The hospitals paid doctors on staff well. Local doctors had to earn their consumers' trust and locals had a better notion of who was drinking too much as well. Now your local doctor is likely part of a business system or insurance system...again...profit for them, not savings for you.

The supervisor's wording of the proposal is not the reason UMMC pulled out. UMMC is a teaching hospital ran by the State College Board. The college board nixed the deal. UMMC has a $60 million obligation that the public knows nothing about which gave the Board cause for concern. Taking on the responsibility of acquiring and managing GLH with that obligation, coupled with the loss of BCBS, made the move to risky in n their eyes.

I feel sorry for UMMC doctors, nurses, staff, professors, students...

One day someone (IHL? Glenn Boyce?) will wake up and figure out the problem at UMMC.

it's been said multiple times that neither medicaid nor medicate (or in tandem) will ever support a rural hospital. Then we have the converse claim by 2:40 that increased medicaid would save the day. She's wrong and is not interesting in 'saving the day', but in saving her day job at the hospital.

There's that 'brain-drainer' again. Always chirping about kids becoming scholars and then leaving the state.

How you gonna fix the problem when opportunities don't exist. And opportunities don't exist when the labor force does not meet the needs of employers.

Do you really think well-paying, professional level jobs are going to pop up all over the state in anticipation of qualified prospects graduating from our colleges? I'm afraid it simply does not work that way.

Like it or not, love it or leave it, Mississippi never has and never will be a venue with a well-educated, prepared, trained workforce. And no corporation is going to establish in this venue based on promises of 'workforce training'.

Our children are busy shooting at each other, buying low-profile tires, pretending to be victims, bitching about white-power, moaning about republicans, managing to avoid work, living at mom's place and hanging out at Starbucks.

Actually, 6:30, YOU'RE wrong. If you convert UNPAID into PAID (by way of Medicaid expansion for the working poor), you can save hospitals.