You may not have heard the story of Steward Health Care, but it epitomizes the growing trend of how healthcare is being treated as a commodity to invest in – to the detriment of we healthcare consumers. I should be writing about gall bladders or thyroid problems you might think. Or other more strictly medical…
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Are Non-profit Hospitals Fulfilling Their Charitable Obligation?
The recent Fredericksburg Planning commission hearing about Mary Washington Healthcare’s application for approval of a $10 million building project got me thinking about the expenditures of nonprofit hospitals, and do they give a fair shake in fulfilling their charitable obligation? The medical literature is suggesting that tax exemption for non-profit hospitals should be reformed. How…
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Those Nasty Pathologists of Old
Talking to good friend and colleague, gastroenterologist Farrukh Jafri the other day, I got excited. We were talking about a dear friend of mine, and patient of his, who just had a liver cyst drained. My excitement was because he added to my lexicon of the vile pathological food analogies. A slightly arcane excitement and…
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Who’s going to pay for the poor and the sick?
You may be aware of the challenges taking place over the funding of the Moss Free Clinic. The clinic is running out of the money collected by a capital campaign managed by Mary Washington Hospital Foundation in 2004. It is also being hit with extra charges that formerly Mary Washington Health Care (MWHC) was paying…
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