The Baltimore health system put Robert Peace back together after a car crash shattered his pelvis. Then it nearly killed him, he says.
A painful bone infection that developed after surgery and a lack of follow-up care landed him in the operating room five more times, kept him homebound for a year and left him with joint damage and a severe limp.
"It's really hard for me to trust what doctors say," Peace said, adding that there was little after-hospital care to try to control the infection. "They didn't do what they were supposed to do."
Pushed by once-unthinkable shifts in how they are reimbursed, Baltimore's famous medical institutions say they are trying harder than ever to improve the health of their lower-income neighbors in West Baltimore.
But dozens of interviews with patients, doctors and local leaders show multiple barriers between the community and the glassy hospital towers a few blocks away.
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Joe Biden didn't trust Hopkins to care for his son either and instead got VA doctors to care for him.
ReplyDeleteThey could probably balance the budget with all the funding Obama handed out for bailouts and wasted.
ReplyDeleteI still trust the hospitals in Balt. more so than PRMC. They will kill you in that hosp.
ReplyDeleteI have used the services of Hopkins for decades and I can tell you that even though the hospital is the best in the country in my opinion....I know better than come into the ER.
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