I had similar results at Duke Hospital. I was sdmitted on Friday,and could have been discharged Satuyday, but Medicare required a 3 dau stay. Couled have saved bundle for those extra 2 days.
Food was pretty good for hospital food. May have to go back next week for CLL treatment Bill On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 9:01 PM, John Sessoms <jsessoms...@nc.rr.com> wrote: > From: Walter Gilbert > >> Great news about the surgery, sorry to hear about the food >> >> Could be that's their way of discouraging lengthy hospital stays and >> discharge appeals. >> > > It doesn't work. I should have been out on Friday, and I would have been if > I hadn't gotten sicker at every meal. I wanted to get out of there on > Friday. > > I think it's just a well meaning, misguided cost-cutting measure. > > The contractor bid too low and is cutting way too many quality corners > struggling to make a go of the contract. Contract meals don't have to be so > ghastly. > > But what the VA saved with the right hand, they more than lost with the > left. Because it didn't discourage me from lengthening my stay. It impeded > me getting the hell out of there. > > Figure under the old system it might have cost them $15 per day for my > meals. Instead they're only spending $10 a day ... or $7.50. > > The downside of those savings is I couldn't choke down the food. What little > I did manage to choke down wouldn't stay down. And I couldn't be discharged > until I could eat. > > It actually made me sicker and I stayed two additional days before I could > be discharged. Figure it generously at $500 a day to keep me in the hospital > (probably cost the VA closer to $1000 every day I was in there). > > They saved $15 on food for Thursday and Friday. Which they turned around and > spent anyway on food because I was there Saturday and Sunday. > > *PLUS* it cost another $1000 for the two additional days I stayed in the > hospital because the food made me so sick they couldn't discharge me. > > And when I did get out of there on Sunday I was sicker than I should have > been because I'd had no effective nutrition for 6 days. Nothing but clear > liquids after midnight Monday => Tuesday and nothing that managed to stay > down longer than a minute Thursday through Sunday. > > I did manage to eat something, I think a cup of clear broth, in SICU on > Wednesday night and got a nibble of egg & a cup of coffee on Thursday > morning. > > It wasn't until I went into the general surgical ward Thursday evening that > my problems with the food began. Must have missed lunch Thursday in transit > somewhere. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
