He was still transported to the Yale-New Haven Hospital emergency department for medical monitoring to prevent toxicity recurrence, the suit states. By the time the ambulance arrived, fire department personnel had already given Miller naloxone and Miller was walking, talking and alert. Miller had ingested a white powder that was given to him at a gathering of friends in the park that he suspected had been laced with fentanyl, the suit states. Ambulance personnel found Miller being treated by firefighters from the East Haven Fire Department. on May 10, 2021, an ambulance responded to a call from the Peter’s Rock Association Park in East Haven. There’s no incentive to put that money into patient care.According to the lawsuit, at approximately 6:25 p.m. “Now we’ve seen enough of it to really appreciate that it’s really happening on the ground, just fewer choices and so forth. “That’s why we saw when Windham Hospital said, ‘Oh, come to Hartford if you want to have a baby,’ that’s a big burden on people who live pretty far away.”Ĭoncerns about consolidation are “not a hypothesis,” Lesser said. “You see discontinuing of coverage in smaller hospitals when you’re part of the larger networks,” he said. Lesser said another problem is smaller hospitals closing units such as labor and delivery. “We know that competition works and then, when there isn’t competition, that these giant hospital chains are using their market power to pad their pockets and to skimp on patient care,” he said. “You can look at any individual purchase and come to a conclusion if you just look at it in isolation, but there’s a bigger problem that consolidation in the hospital space has led to higher prices and lower quality,” Lesser said. He said the large health care systems will force insurance companies to pay a premium to have access to all the hospitals in their networks, “so they can use their size to get higher rates than they would otherwise do.” Matt Lesser, D-Middletown, co-chairman of the General Assembly’s Insurance and Real Estate Committee, said he would reintroduce a bill addressing hospital consolidation, which passed the Senate “nearly unanimously” in 2022 but was not voted on in the House. “I think that we can continue to deliver a high-value product.” “It is a complicated issue,” he said, with a great deal of pricing dictated by Medicare and Medicaid, which do not cover the costs of care.Īlso, “in the last two cases of our integrations … there were caps that were put on that were abided by,” O’Connor said.
He disputed claims that acquiring more hospitals leads to higher prices. He added that the Federal Trade Commission weighed in on the deal with Prospect and “said it did not impair growth and competition.” “Having grown up in New Haven, our best asset is our location,” O’Connor said, because patients also have the option to go to the major medical centers in Boston and New York. While both Yale New Haven Health and Hartford HealthCare have expanded across the state, both by buying independent hospitals and medical practices and expanding services such as radiology, O’Connor said Yale New Haven is “relatively small when you look at systems that are nationwide.” “The same faces that were doing that when the pandemic occurred will be there when the sign changes,” he said. Lundbye said Waterbury Hospital, like others, responded to the pandemic by continuing to offer care at the same high level it had before. Manchester Memorial Hospital on Friday, Jan 20, 2023.
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