Concerning North Shore Health, how much longer is the county going to continue dumping money into the local hospital? $200,000 more needed next year ($1.3 million projected) . . .how much after that? It is not going to get any better and the year over year trend is bleak. Doing a little math from the numbers provided in the Cook County News-Herald, the 2020 yearly “subsidy – money transfer” adds up to over $550 per Cook County household unit. This occurring every year, year after year, and the number is growing. Every hospital operating area listed is showing losses.
If you really get ill/hurt, you are going to have to go to a different hospital in any event. The specialists just don’t exist in Grand Marais. The Cook County taxpayers are allowing the North Shore Hospital to not face economic realities. I am a Cook County property owner without the ability to vote; so I need help to get my voice heard.
If the local hospital provides patient and economic value, a larger hospital group will certainly take over the operations (if North Shore Health is not independently sustainable). I give you as an example, the Fairview Range Medical Center in Hibbing. Bigger hospitals/ groups have satellite type hospitals in smaller towns and cities, and that health care provider model works.
Roger Hall
Fleming Island, Florida
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