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General News: SLCH's Inpatient Unit to Flex Down
December 15, 2010
St. Luke’s Cornwall Hospital is making plans to “flex down” the inpatient beds at the Cornwall campus of the hospital on or before April 4, 2011, a move that hospital officials say results from a drop in hospital admissions, part of a nationwide trend.
Hospital spokeswoman and vice president Sue Sullivan says that the hospital’s inpatient unit, which currently operates from five to 17 beds, will not be staffed after the move takes effect. Nurses currently assigned to that unit will be moved to the Newburgh campus of St. Lukes Cornwall Hospital and, if the need arises, the beds in Cornwall can be put back in service, Sullivan says, noting there are no current plans to put the unit to a new use.
“Our inpatient volume is decreasing,” Sullivan said in an interview on Tuesday. “Payers don’t want to pay for you to stay in the hospital. For example, you are no longer in the hospital for a week for gall bladder surgery, but for six hours on an outpatient basis.”
The Cornwall campus of the hospital reduced the number of inpatient beds from 36 to 17 in 2009, a move that eliminated the intensive care unit at the hospital. At the time, hospital officials attributed the move to a need to stop duplicating services while increasing outpatient services in Cornwall. In recent years, the hospital has added radiation oncology services, the Littman Cancer Center, wound care, Kreisberg pain management, the Eastern Orange Ambulatory Surgery Center and physical therapy services to the Cornwall campus..
Sullivan encourages anyone needing medical attention to go to the closest emergency room, saying that If the medical staff decides that a patient needs to be admitted, that patient will be transported by the hospital to Newburgh and admitted there.
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WOW! The reason Inpatient admissions are down, is because when you require admission you get sent to the Newburgh Campus! Most people who go to the Cornwall Campus Emergency Room for treatment and need to be admitted would RATHER be admitted to the Cornwall Campus! Very colorful spin on that statement from tha hospital spokeswoman!
posted by Kerry Merritt on 12/17/10 at 8:06 AM
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