I don’t think they should have sued the emt’s they should have sued the first hosptial who didn’t want them for whatever reason. It’s suppose to be if you don’t have insurance they are to treat you anyway.
I’d like to know why the first hospital wouldn’t treat them. Unless it was a redneck hospital they are suppose to be able to treat all medical emergency’s.
What they should have done was delivered the baby, THEN transported him to the children’s hospital. Not to send a mother who at any moment could give birth.
I went to the hospital closest to my house as I had severe abdominal pain. They examined me and then told me I had to go to another hospital because my insurance wouldn’t cover me at this hospital. Sent me on my way because at 18 I couldn’t afford to pay for the treatment myself. The other hospital was 45 minutes away. I had no one to drive me so my father had to call my insurance company to get approval for an ambulance. Thankfully he did as I couldn’t even stand and had started vomiting at that point. Turned out it was appendicitis but the doctor at the first hospital didn’t have any problem sending me away to drive myself to the other hospital. This was 20 years ago but I see times haven’t changed that much.
One hospital here doesn’t even have a maternity ward, they have the best cardio in the area. If a pregnant woman with high risk or premature delivery, she would be transported to one of two other hospitals that have level 3 NICU.
Evidently the first two docs refused her treatment so it was up to the EMTs to figure out what to do with her. Very sad.
Seems these first two docs settled out of court to save themselves the embarrassment of a trial.
When uninsured patients get admitted to the a hospital, guess how many docs are lined up to care for them….
This transport was so wrong at many levels. The 1st hospital realized that their physician was wrong and violated EMTALA by not arranging a proper transport with a qualified team. The ambulance service had the opportunity to decline and the hospital would have had to call a higher level team. But EVAC said “no problem”. They had nothing to support life of a 25 week neonate and didn’t even establish an advanced airway per national guidelines (NRP). FAIL. Florida has since revamped their statutes to prevent unqualified EMS crews from transporting critically ill babies and hopefully that will be expanded to all ages. A few hundred hours of training is not enough and when the Paramedic class is so easy every Fire Fighter is a Paramedic regardless of medical desire….
BTW, the distance was closer to 70 miles.
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I don’t think they should have sued the emt’s they should have sued the first hosptial who didn’t want them for whatever reason. It’s suppose to be if you don’t have insurance they are to treat you anyway.
I’d like to know why the first hospital wouldn’t treat them. Unless it was a redneck hospital they are suppose to be able to treat all medical emergency’s.
What they should have done was delivered the baby, THEN transported him to the children’s hospital. Not to send a mother who at any moment could give birth.
I went to the hospital closest to my house as I had severe abdominal pain. They examined me and then told me I had to go to another hospital because my insurance wouldn’t cover me at this hospital. Sent me on my way because at 18 I couldn’t afford to pay for the treatment myself. The other hospital was 45 minutes away. I had no one to drive me so my father had to call my insurance company to get approval for an ambulance. Thankfully he did as I couldn’t even stand and had started vomiting at that point. Turned out it was appendicitis but the doctor at the first hospital didn’t have any problem sending me away to drive myself to the other hospital. This was 20 years ago but I see times haven’t changed that much.
One hospital here doesn’t even have a maternity ward, they have the best cardio in the area. If a pregnant woman with high risk or premature delivery, she would be transported to one of two other hospitals that have level 3 NICU.
Evidently the first two docs refused her treatment so it was up to the EMTs to figure out what to do with her. Very sad.
Seems these first two docs settled out of court to save themselves the embarrassment of a trial.
When uninsured patients get admitted to the a hospital, guess how many docs are lined up to care for them….
This transport was so wrong at many levels. The 1st hospital realized that their physician was wrong and violated EMTALA by not arranging a proper transport with a qualified team. The ambulance service had the opportunity to decline and the hospital would have had to call a higher level team. But EVAC said “no problem”. They had nothing to support life of a 25 week neonate and didn’t even establish an advanced airway per national guidelines (NRP). FAIL. Florida has since revamped their statutes to prevent unqualified EMS crews from transporting critically ill babies and hopefully that will be expanded to all ages. A few hundred hours of training is not enough and when the Paramedic class is so easy every Fire Fighter is a Paramedic regardless of medical desire….
BTW, the distance was closer to 70 miles.