Fox Report on Hospital Video Lacks Context, Official Says
Fox Business report claims Morristown Medical Center's 'Building an ACO' YouTube video mocks patient care access.
A top Morristown Medical Center official criticized a Fox Business report that accused the hospital and Atlantic Health, its parent organization, of mocking patient care access in an amateur video produced to internally encourage doctors to join Accountable Care Organizations--part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, commonly called Obamacare. The Jan. 30 report, by Fox Business reporter Elizabeth MacDonald, claims the video makes fun of health care access, telling its audience they can make more money for doctors and hospitals by preventing patients from being readmitted to hospitals. Doctors are shown blocking the door of a hospital, "to stop patients from being readmitted for more care, dollar bills exchanging hands …
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Walter O.
1:44 pm on Friday, February 1, 2013
I agree...one other point all of us should keep in mind when a loved one is hospitalized Is the role of the "hospitalist" (relatively new, at least to me). All to often these MDs recommendation is the opposite of one's own physician! My personal physician came out and told me the hospitalist role is to get people out of the hospital as quickly as possible. I think the example you gave will be a … more ›