Baton Rouge General Medical Center – Mid-City Campus
Emergency department
After years of financial struggle and $154 million from the state since 2012, Baton Rouge General announced the imminent closure of the Mid City emergency department on Tuesday, February 3, 2015. Due to the volume of uninsured patients seeking treatment, hospital losses were exceeding $2 million per month. The closure will have a significant impact on travel time for EMS patients in the vicinity, who will now have to be transported to either Lane Regional Medical Center to the north, or Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center and Ochsner Medical Center to the south. This has added additional fuel to the contentious debates over whether Louisiana should accept federal funding through the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to expand Medicaid coverage.
References
- ^ "Baton Rouge General announces it will close Mid City emergency room | NOLA.com". Archived from the original on 2015-02-06.
- ^ "MidCity". Archived from the original on 2015-02-11. Retrieved 2015-02-10.
- ^ Clinic, Bayou Regional Women's. "Lane Regional Medical Center | Baton Rouge Hospital". www.lanermc.org. Retrieved 2024-03-27.
- ^ "Ochsner Medical Center - Baton Rouge | Ochsner Health System | New Orleans, LA". Archived from the original on 2015-02-10. Retrieved 2015-02-10.
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