THERE HAS BEEN A GROWING CRISIS in the Tucson, Arizona hospital emergency rooms. The normal practice there has been for specialist physicians who are affilitated with the hospital to take rotations on ER duty. But because of nutty government regulations and certain financial pressures, many of the specialists are withdrawing their hospital affiliations, leaving the ER with short coverage.
Now some of the hospitals are trying to reverse the trend by paying the specialists to be on duty in the ER’s. Some people in the local health business think that this might be financially fatal for some of the hospitals.
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St. Joseph’s Hospital, Tucson
Read the full story in today’s Arizona Star to find out how they got into this situation HERE.
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