NEWS: Number of immigrants in emergency rooms on the rise
Patient Financial Services Weekly Advisor, October 17, 2008
Many hospitals in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut are struggling to compensate for the cost of providing emergency care to a rising number of uninsured immigrants in their emergency rooms, the New York Times reports.
Greenwich Hospital, as one example, has seen a sharp increase since 2005 after the closing of United Hospital in nearby Port Chester, a village of immigrants just over the border in New York. In the year following United’s closing, Greenwich’s maternity load jumped from 1,400 to 2,300.
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