New Hospital Proposed For Springfield, Delco

New Hospital Proposed For Springfield, Delco — A plan to finish the development of the Elocin Tract in Springfield, Delaware County, Pa. has been unveiled and the opposition has been aroused just as if it were 1979.

At least as per a professionally done flyer we received attached to our front door.

The property, now called Coventry Woods, is on North State Road between Rolling and Springfield roads.

A large section has already been developed with luxury, single-family homes.

The latest plan calls for building 84 townhomes and a 10-bed emergency room with a surgical center by Christiana Care, according to the flyer.

Leaving the townhome question aside, why build a new hospital when Springfield Hospital lies vacant a couple miles away?

Open space is almost as desirable as a hospital. It seems the powers that be in the township, county, state and Christiana Care have an opportunity to revive a facility already built for health care.

Pursuing the dollar isn’t always what’s best for a socieity.

New Hospital Proposed For Springfield

Emergency Rooms For Delco In Health Emergency

Emergency Rooms For Delco In Health Emergency

By Bob Small

In case you missed it Ridley Township latest to declare emergency over EMS and Chester-Crozier systems has just become a memory and Delaware County has become a third world county.

Delaware County and my world, Swarthmore, have also declared states of emergency. The only two major hospitals left in Delaware County are Lankenau and Riddle, The Delaware County Health Department should, operative word should, be working on this situation. Then there’s Delaware County Council which, I’d like to believe means well. Only State Senator Tim Kearney. of our local legislators, to my knowledge, has been involved with this situation.

Piggy-backing on Sharon Devaney’s excellent article this is a list of ER’s currently operating in Delco. We also listed those within 30 minutes or less from Swarthmore. Note; In Swarthmore, we’ve been told that Riddle is the first ER option and Lankenau is the second. After that, who knows?

Emergency Wards Serving Delco

Bryn Mawr Hospital, 130 South Bryn Mawr Avenue,Bryn Mawr, PA, 484-337-3000

Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital, 1599 Lansdowne Avenue, Darby, PA, 610-237-4000

Adjacent Chesco Hospitals with Emergency Wards

Chester County Hospital, 701 E. Marshall St, West Chester, PA 610-431-5000

Paoli Hospital, 255 West Lancaster Avenue, Paoli, PA, 484-565-1000

Penn Presbyterian Hospital is the only adjacent Philly Hospital to Delaware County

51 north 39th St, 215-662-8000 (20 minutes)

Adjacent Emergency rooms in Delaware

Christiana Care, 501 W. 14th St., Wilmington, DE, 302-733-1000 25 m

St Francis Hospital, 701 North Clayton St, Wilmington, DE, 302-421-4100, 27m

Adjacent Emergency Rooms in New Jersey

Cooper Hospital, 1 Cooper Plaza, Camden, NJ, 856-342-2000 30m

Inspira Medical Center, 155 Bridgeton Pike, Mullica Hills, NJ 800-467-7472 limited hours

It might be prudent to call these hospitals before going, as they may also get very busy.

Emergency Rooms For Delco In Health Emergency

Crozer Closing Emergency Service Guide

Crozer Closing Emergency Service Guide

By Sharon Devaney

The closing of Crozer-Chester and Taylor hospitals by the Prospect Medical Holdings Corporation is crushing blow to the health security of Delaware County, Pa. and this tragedy can solely be laid at the foot of blind incompetence by the Democrat-controlled county and corrupt cronyism of the globalist-uniparty controlled state.

And the illegal immigration promotion by the Obama and Biden administrations.

Prospect Medical’s CEO Sam Lee took home about $90 million in 2018, let us note. It’s one thing to get rich providing a service. Being rewarded for destroying one, however, is a twisted perversion.

Anyway, here’s a guide to what’s left of the region’s medical services courtesy of Terri Millard

Riddle Memorial Hospital (Media, PA)

Services: STEMI, OB, Primary stroke center

Mercy Fitzgerald (Darby, PA)

Services: STEMI, Primary stroke center

Jefferson Methodist Hosp (Phila, PA)

Services: Primary stroke? Community hosp, No specialty services

ChristianaCare Wilmington Hospital (Wilm, DE)

Services: Level 3 trauma, Primary stroke center

St Francis Hospital (Wilm, DE)

Services: Level 4 trauma, STEMI, Primary stroke center, OB

Penn Presbyterian/Univ Penn Medical Center (Phila, PA)

Services: Level 1 trauma, STEMI, Comprehensive stroke center, OB

Lankenau Medical Center (Wynnewood, PA)

Services: Level 2 trauma, STEMI, OB, Primary stroke center

Chester County Hosp (West Chester, PA)

Services: STEMI, OB, Primary stroke center

Paoli Hospital (Paoli, PA)

Services: Level 2 trauma, STEMI, OB, Primary stroke center

Thomas Jefferson University Hospital (Phila, PA)

Services: Level 1 trauma, STEMI, OB, Comprehensive stroke center, Burn center

Inspira Mullica Hill (Mullica Hill, NJ)

Services: STEMI, Primary stroke center

Temple University Hospital (Phila, PA)

Services: Level 1 trauma, STEMI, OB, Burn center

ChristianaCare (Newark, DE)

Services: Level 1 trauma, STEMI, OB, Comprehensive stroke center

Bryn Mawr: OB, Stemi, comprehensive stroke, pediatrics, and I believe still have a crisis center for mental health.

Crozer Closing Emergency Service Guide

Hospital Closures Turning Delco Into 3rd World

Hospital Closures Turning Delco Into 3rd World — We caught Delaware County (Pa) Council Chairwoman Monica Taylor on the news last night, March 7, looking upset and horrified about Delco’s rapidly increasing spiral into 3rdworlddom with the imminent closure of three major hospitals.

The hospitals — Crozer-Chester Medical Center, Springfield and Taylor — are owned by  Prospect Medical Holdings of California.

“We had six hospitals in Delaware County and now, due to Prospect, we may only have two hospitals left,” she said.

Two hospitals for 576,830 persons is pretty third worldish.

Why are they closing? Regulations, impractical mandates and perhaps a little corporate looting.

A competent government would not have let this happen.

Delaware County’s government is not competent.

But at least we now have a neato health department that gives out condoms and has electric vehicles.

And it only (LOL) costs $19 million.

Change is needed fast.

Not that we advocate corporate welfare but $19 million would have saved those hospitals.

Hospital Closures Turning Delco Into 3rd World
Monica Taylor

Hospital Closures Turning Delco Into 3rd World

Health Cost Hike No Mystery

Health Cost Hike No Mystery — Why health costs have exploded while health care has decrease in quality is summed up in this chart.

It was posted by The Rabbit Hole on X, Nov. 17.

His source is researchgate.net.

The growth in physicians is practically flat since 1976.

Meanwhile, those number of those who push the paper to make sure all i’s are dotted have exploded.

Crossing i’s does not equate to diagnosing a brain tumor and treating it.

And these paper pushers do not come free. Actually, they make a pretty nice buck whether they work for an insurance company or the government or a medical facility trying to keep insurance companies and the government off their back.

Health Cost Hike No Mystery

Health Cost Hike No Mystery

Woman Leaves Big Medicine To Spend More Time With Patients

Woman Leaves Big Medicine To Spend More Time With Patients

By Sharon Devaney

Jeanne Velasco, M.D., left main stream medicine to start a practice focusing on families. Pharmaceuticals would be minimal and the care would include diet, meditation and others treatments not beloved by corporate bean-counters.

Especially important is that patient visits are not timed.

She said a previous job with a huge health conglomerate doctors were limited to seven minutes per patient.

So Lansdale Pediatrics was started with three other doctors. It’s part of the Advocare physicians group.

Children are encouraged to limit social media screen time, play outside, and learn board games.

And especially get off the phones.

Lansdale Pediatrics pushes families to spend time each day together whether it’s cooking a meal, or doing household chores and yard work.

This is all explained in the initial appointment.

Traditional insurance is accepted.

The staff’s continuing education includes mainstream medicine but adds non-traditional things like diet , meditation, reading and calming methods to help with stress for children in the preteen and teenage years.

Again prescription drugs are minimized, says Dr. Velasco

Dr Velasco is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and is board certified wit the American Board of Pediatrics.

She is married and the couple lives in Philadelphia with their two dogs

Lansdale Prediatrics is at 1240 S. Broad St., Suite 130 Lansdale, PA 19446

For information visit here.

Woman Leaves Big Medicine To Spend More Time With Patients
Dr. Jeanne Velasco

Woman Leaves Big Medicine To Spend More Time With Patients

CHOP Bosses Got Covid Rich But Did Nurses Get Raises?

CHOP Bosses Got Covid Rich But Did Nurses Get Raises?

By Sharon Devaney

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia paid CEO Madeline Bell a record $7.7 million in 2021, which included a $5.6 million bonus, which The Philadelphia Inquirer dutifully reported back in September.

This is more than CHOP spent on charity in three years. More than the hospital spent on charity care in 3 years.

Ms. Bell’s pay was the highest for CEOs in the Philadelphia area that year and the package was the largest ever received by an area health system CEO.

This was $2.3 million higher than second place Stephen K. Klasko, former CEO of Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health; and a whopping $7 million more than P Sue Perrotty of Tower Health, a retired banker and board member, who at $662,500, was the lowest paid of area health executives.

CHOP is the most profitable health system in the Philadelphia area.

We have heard the nurses and other front-line employees received no raises during the pandemic. Doesn’t that sound a tad unfair?

CHOP Bosses Got Covid Rich But Did  Nurses Get Raises?

Usurious Health Care In The USA

Usurious Health Care In The USA — It flows around us like it’s water and we’re the fish but we’re not fish and when reality hits, it dawns on us that we’re drowning.

Things are getting worse for a lot of reasons and this includes health care.

A friend sent us this November 2020 study by National Nurses United that shows that US hospitals were then charging patients $417 on average for every $100 of the cost of treatment.

This is double what it was in 1999.

And many were charging a lot more including King of Prussia-based Universal Health Services at $892 per $100 and Temple University Health System at $1,042 per $100.

The shark with the biggest teeth was Capital Health at $1,443.9 per $100.

Doctors and nurses aren’t getting the loot but, rather, the corporations consolidating hospitals, pharma, and insurance companies whose profits strangely increase with rises in health care costs.

Wasn’t ObamaCare supposed to solve this?

LOL

Hospital income went from $34.37 billion in 2009 to $52.9 billion in 2010 when the Affordable Care Act was enacted.

Communism is evil, and socialism is pathetic and stupid. Capitalism, though, is not an idol to which one gives blood sacrifice. Too many Americans seem to think we should, though.

Rich people are great when their wealth comes from creating products and services that ease things for all.

When the wealth comes from scams, lies and destruction of competition, well, not so much.

Our health care has been taken over by the latter, as has much of our government. There is a reason why America’s richest counties are in the suburbs of D.C.

The government pigs have rigged things for the health care pigs — along with many other pigs — so the great trough is overflowing.

How to fix things?

Start with the principle that greed is bad and freedom is good. Make the equation balance and things will get pretty nice.

Usurious Health Care In The USA

Usurious Health Care In The USA

Big Pharma Has Corrupted Universities, Journals

Big Pharma Has Corrupted Universities, Journals — John Abramson, who was a family physician for 22 years before joining the faculty at the Harvard Medical School, righteously ripped America’s health care system in the February edition of Imprimis.

Abramson says that in 1980 our health care was on par with the rest of the West but began losing ground so that by 2019 there were 500,000 Americans dying each year in excess of the death rates of the citizens of the other technically advance nations.

He said it was not just with regard to our poor.

“To exclude poverty as a factor in these numbers, a study looked at the health of privileged Americans—specifically, white citizens living in counties that are in the top one percent and the top five percent in terms of income,” he said. “This high-income population had better health outcomes than other U.S. citizens, but it still had worse outcomes than average citizens of the other developed countries in such areas as infant and maternal mortality, colon cancer, childhood acute lymphocytic leukemia, and acute myocardial infarction.”

He said this is despite Americans paying on average $12,914 per person per year on health care, whereas those in comparable countries pay $6,125. 

He said this translate to an excess $2.3 trillion compared to those nations.

What caused the decline?

In 1980, the Bayh-Dole Act was passed allowing universities and nonprofit research institutions to commercialize discoveries made by their scientists while conducting federally-funded research. This included keeping profits from patents on pharmaceuticals. 

Before the Act, the overwhelming majority of pharmaceutical research was happening in universities without a profit motive. By 2005, almost three quarters of it was being done by under the auspices of mega corporations.

He said medical journals do not require  require that the drug companies submit their extensive internal clinical study and basically print what they are told to print else their funding would be cut.

He further noted that America is = spending 96 percent of our biomedical research money on medical drugs and devices, and only 4 percent on how to make the population healthier and how to deliver health care more efficiently and effectively.

“Why? he says. “Because the drug companies’ job is to maximize the money they return to their investors, and the highest return on research investment is not going to be from studying and promoting healthy diets and lifestyles. The money is in selling drugs and devices. This leads to a tremendous epidemiological imbalance in the information coming down to doctors.”

The entire article can be read here: https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/americas-broken-health-care-diagnosis-and-prescription/

Big Pharma Has Corrupted Universities, Journals

Big Pharma Has Corrupted Universities, Journals

Gender Dysphoria Up 100000% Since 2013; Follow The Money; Surgery Cost $300K

Gender Dysphoria Up 100000% Since 2013 — Dr. Robert Malone’s Substack Sunday (April 16) concerned the unfathomable increase in kids claiming gender dysphoria, and the big money being made from the “transitioning” racket.

The Mayo Clinic defines gender dysphoria as the feeling of discomfort or distress that might occur in people whose gender identity differs from their sex assigned at birth or sex-related physical characteristics.

Dr. Malone notes that the rate of gender dysphoria in 2013 was .005 percent to .014 percent for males and .002 percent to .003 percent for females. In 2022 it was 5 percent for all adults. That’s an increase of almost 100,000 percent if you start with .005 percent.

This increase is obviously due to social manipulation and the unwillingness of those in authority to simply say “you’ll grow out of this and be fine.”

What could ever be the reason for this unwillingness, not to mention the actual manipulation and encouragement?

Malone notes that the cost for “transitioning” reaches $300,000.

Follow the money. Intelligent, highly skilled people have thrown aside compassion for the dollar.

It’s about as evil as it gets.

Granted there are cases where the condition is more than mere emotion. Probably around 1 in 20,000. That’s a hell of a lot different than 1 in 20.

Malone also quotes 2018 Psychology Today article describing how a large minority of kids have developed a belief system whereby they, as a group, espouse that being a normal biological female or male is akin to being immoral and evil. 

This doesn’t happen without planning. This is being taught in schools and reinforced in media.

Anger is not just justified but necessary.

It is also vital for parents to teach their children to love themselves as they were born.

And to say no, be strong and question those claiming authority.

Especially teachers.

Gender Dysphoria Up 100000% Since 2013; Follow The Money; Surgery Cost $300K