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SAVE OUR HOSPITALS!
Prince George’s hospital system is in danger of closure, leaving the 180,000 patients who use the hospitals each year without access to healthcare.
The current crisis at Prince George’s hospital system is another event in a 20-year history of financial problems and lack of solutions. Despite the work of commissions, turnarounds, committees, studies, takeovers and authorities, no viable long-term solution has been identified.
A plan promoted by Governor Martin O’Malley during the 2007 General Assembly to establish an authority to run the facilities and having an academic institution, such as Johns Hopkins Hospital, University of Maryland Medical System or Medstar, take over operations at the hospitals, was thwarted by the Prince George’s County Council. The session ended in April, 2007 with no plan or continued funding for the hospitals, leaving them in imminent danger of closure.
As Dimensions, the operator of the hospitals, prepared to close the facilities, the Prince George’s County Council voted to continue to fund them for 15 months, ending in July, 2008. There is no paper documentation of this funding; it is also unclear what is expected from the hospitals in return for the funding.
As long as our elected officials put off planning a long-term solution, the threat of closure continues to hang over the hospitals. We need leadership from our elected officials and a long-term plan to keep the hospitals open today and growing for tomorrow.
Take a look through the website for the facts about the Prince George’s hospital system and what you can do to keep the hospitals open.
FACTS ABOUT PRINCE GEORGE’S HOSPITAL SYSTEM
- The Prince George’s hospital system is composed of Bowie Health Center, Gladys Spellman Specialty Hospital and Nursing Center, Glenridge Medical Center, Laurel Regional Hospital, Prince George's Hospital Center and Senior Health Center.
- The hospital system serves 180,000 people each year
- 2,300 people work at the facilities of Prince George’s hospital system
- Prince George’s Hospital Center has the state’s second busiest trauma center
