Comments on: DePaul only the latest Bon Secours casualty

By: Aeneau

Aeneau — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:35:35 +0000

I think if you look at the demographics in the Denbigh area of Newport News,Vivian,you will note that a substantial number of African-Americans and Orientals live there,especially Blacks.The Denbigh area has become very congested.I know this as I used to live there.My father was a patient at Mary Immaculate and while visiting him there all throughout the summer of 2006 the hospital served many African-Americans as patients.So please don’t go off saying that Bon Secours is dodging people of a certain racial persuasion.They deserve the same standard of quality care as someone with insurance and money to burn.You are so ridiculous when you say Bon Secours buys /builds hospitals and then closes them to escape an “inner city” class of patients.Hospitals often close Vivian because their physical plant/facilities etc are obsolete,broken down,or unable to be streamlined under the present set of circumstances to make them more efficient.You are very close Vivian to insinuating a “race issue” on this posting.And by the way,DePaul isn’t going to close and relocate somewhere else.We want to rebuild on the existing land.Maybe, in order to soothe your “alarmed frantic nerves” we might just build a 100 or so bed hospital instead of 54 beds.You people are just so crazy and frantic.Why the hell should anyone build more than they can fill?And what’s wrong with adding a few beds out in Virginia Beach and Suffolk?Huh?Tell me.Those assholes in Richmond let Sentara do it.So why not us? What’s wrong with a little competition?What’s wrong with giving the citizens a CHOICE?I doubt seriously that Bon Secours will wrestle a sizable patient population away from Sentara.I don’t even know why I am responding to comments on these ridiculous ,absurd and moronic websites,your’s and that stupid DePaul Emergeny 134.You people need to just chill out and get a life with regard to this hospital thing and worry about more important matters like denying that egotistical ,say anything you the ignorant American voter wants to hear, self centered,over the top liberal of a jerk Obama from becoming president.Did you “drink” his Kool-aide?

By: vjp

vjp — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:47:42 +0000

I see from the website that the hospital moved in the early 1980s to its current location. When I was growing up on the Peninsula, the hospital was located in the eastern part of the city and certainly served the inner city. (Interestingly enough, a Google search brings up some conflicting information. Most say the hospital was founded at the turn of the century by Dr. Joseph Buxton, but a few say it was founded by The Bernardine Franciscan Sisters in 1952.) So it is possible that Mary Immaculate no longer serves an inner city population. But that doesn't change the larger point that Bon Secours has purchased inner city hospitals and then either closed them or moved them to other areas.

By: rlewis

rlewis — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:55:29 +0000

linda b,
I don’t dispute that Mary Immaculate hospital is not Inner City, however what demographic does it service? Is it an “inner city population”? I don’t know. I think that is Vivian’s point.

By: linda b

linda b — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:11:39 +0000

Mary Immaculate hospital in located in northern Newport News on Denbigh Blvd. It is no an inner city hospital.

By: Don Tabor

Don Tabor — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:46:32 +0000

Will you be satisfied when enough uneconomic decisions have been forced on them that they close the place altogether?

I have enjoyed my profession(dentist) and find great satisfaction in making a positive difference in people’s lives. But if one of my grandchildren started considering a career in health care in the face of this attitude of entitlement toward health care services, I would have them committed until they regained their sanity.

By: vjp

vjp — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:09:46 +0000

I didn’t say it was an inner city hospital, I said it served an inner city population. That was true when I grew up on the Peninsula. Have they moved it?

By: linda b

linda b — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:03:04 +0000

Mary Iimmaculate is not an “inner city” hospital.

By: rlewis

rlewis — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 21:04:38 +0000

How long did Depaul “experience a high census”, a census will flucuate and the hospital will make adjustments. That being said, if they only average a 70 bed census (which is according to Depaul), should they build a 134 bed hospital? I don’t think so.

Vivian, your post is close to insuading a “race” issue with Bon Secours.