Prince George's Hospital System in the ICU

Prince George's Hospital System is Desperate for Cash

(Prince George's County, Maryland,  USA ( Yahoo interactive map))

By Rosalind S. Helderman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, January 6, 2007; B01

excerpts:

A leading Maryland senator warned this week that the financially troubled Prince George's Hospital system faces imminent shutdown if it does not receive a $5 million cash infusion soon.

The county-owned system serves 180,000 patients a year, many of them poor and underinsured, at Prince George's Hospital Center in Cheverly, as well as a regional hospital in Laurel and other clinics...

A total shutdown would wreak havoc on medical care across the region, forcing indigent patients to flood other regional hospitals. The Prince George's Hospital Center also operates Maryland's second-busiest trauma center.

 

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