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| Question of the Week | | Tuesday we asked: The Massachusetts Department of Public Health last week approved a plan from UMass Memorial Health Care to convert roughly half of the hospital's psychiatric beds into medical/surgical beds, despite opposition from the state nurses association, people in the community and the Worcester city council. The hospital said it needs the medical/surgical beds and can treat patients at other behavioral health hospitals by transporting them there. | | Do you support UMass Memorial's plan to convert psychiatric beds for medical/surgical use? | | | Converting these beds will help the patient population in Worcester by providing beds for emergency room patients to begin their care. I do support this plan. A plan to move the patients from UMass Memorial Health Care to other facilities because the psych beds are being converted into med/surgical beds smacks of an executive decision based solely on either finances, convenience, politics or statistics and some type of financial (or specialty funding) gains. It is poor planning. The patients and staff will bear the brunt of such a change and disruption and there is no thought to any other option or compromise (as I can tell). I feel strongly that this decision is being made by high up administrators and/or executives without any regard to the actual impact on their in-house population or staff. We should finally realize the mistake that was made in shutting down so many dedicated state hospitals. We need quality care like we used to have at hospitals like Westboro State. Our care for the mentally ill suffered when we tried to save money and like usual, it backfired. We would have saved more by adequately funding the hospitals rather than closing them. | | See All Comments >> | |
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