The ambulance entrance doors are chained shut at Mercy Westside Hospital, which opened in 1949 as West Side District Hospital, and is in dilapidated and vandalized condition while up for sale in Taft, California.
Credit: David McNew
MCMINNVILLE, TENNESSE —Whitney Brown was in labor with her first baby when suddenly she couldn’t breathe.
Convulsions shook her body. Ms. Brown’s blood pressure and oxygen levels dropped, and the baby’s heart rate plunged. Nurses at Saint Thomas River Park Hospital called obstetrician Dawnmarie Riley, who minutes later burst into the operating room in such a rush her hospital scrubs were inside out.
Dr. Riley delivered the baby girl in an emergency caesarean section, and Ms. Brown was taken to intensive care. Doctors at River Park, the only hospital in a central Tennessee county of 40,000 people, didn’t know what had caused Ms. Brown’s seizure. But they knew one thing: The 28-year-old woman needed more than they could provide.
What followed was a race to save Ms. Brown, a high-risk medical challenge that […]
It would seem that state rulings bypassed Congress months ago, causing a slow inevitable collapse of the ACA. And Insurance companies continue to pull out of state markets. Anthem pulled out of VA yesterday. The company already announced it would likely be leaving Wisconsin, Indiana and Ohio (all red states)
There’s been an increasing downward spiral of insurance companies leaving red state markets. Anthem left VA yesterday and said it will likely be leaving Wisconsin, OH and Ind.