i work at an urban hospital, specifically its cancer center, in Rochester NY. we serve a massive catchment of 27 counties. not just Monroe where the city is, but over a dozen rural counties where we have satellite clinics and rural hospitals.
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we depend on Medi funding to cover so many of our patients, both from in the city and our rural zones. our ERs have massive wait times. our hospital beds always full. constantly understaffed. we cannot endure closing a rural hospital and having to send more patients to the city one 1 hr away.
aug 30, 2025, 4:13 pm • 3 0 • view
we can’t handle it financially or staff wise. and the rural patients will suffer. we’ll lose cardiac patients. i have chemo patients driving here 95 min each way for a bi/weekly infusion bc our rural centers can’t accommodate all the patients and those sites may close.
aug 30, 2025, 4:14 pm • 4 0 • view
if @martyvburen.bsky.social thinks there isnt also an urban crisis or that the rural ones aren’t intimately linked to the urban ones, they’re just wrong.
aug 30, 2025, 4:15 pm • 5 0 • view