Dr. Robert Transchel, the President and CEO of Yuma, Arizona’s Yuma Regional Medical Center, recently spoke with Fox & Friends Weekend and said that the problem is nothing new.
Fox News reports that Dr. Transchel said:
“It’s been a long journey,” and “We’ve been at this for well over a year now. We tracked our uncompensated care for a period of over six months, and we calculated that we’ve provided over $20 million in uncompensated care to the migrants crossing the border.”
February 08, 2023
Transchel stated that neither local, state, nor federal resources are available to help care for something like this. He says that the problem has simply been ignored or shifted around.
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The doctor stated that his hospital took the issue directly to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas who had done nothing about the problem.
February 08, 2023
Dr. Transchel stated: “We just don't have a payer source. Everybody is sympathetic, and everybody lends a listening ear, but nobody has a solution,” and “We’ve provided $20 million in care to the migrants that are crossing the border, and we just don’t have a payer source for those individuals. It’s not a sustainable model to have these continued rising expenses without a revenue source to offset that.”
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The doctor said that the hospital would continue to function for now and that most hospitals operate on a very thin profit margin. He added:
“We’re fine today, and we’ll be fine tomorrow. The problem is, if this continues, it’s gonna build up, and it’s gonna continue to be a problem.”
He said that the $20 million in care costs that the hospital has suffered are a major problem but that it is just a drop in the bucket compared to all of the losses that it has sustained from the constant care for migrants.
He added, “The infrastructure that we’ve had to add is uncompensated as well.”
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In another interview, the doctor told Fox News that the hospital’s maternity ward had reached capacity since the nearest hospital about 60 miles away had stopped performing labor and delivery care. He noted that many of the other hospital’s migrant patients are pregnant.
Transchel added, “We would have to delay some of the planned inductions for our residents because of that,” leading to many people in the area not receiving the maternity services needed when the time comes.
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