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Commission on Health Care in the 21st Century Recommendations for St. Charles Hospital

Below are talking points you can address in your emails/letters. We request that your emails and letters to our legislators who are also working on our behalf are written with courtesy and respect and address the talking points as stated below. Thank you for your support of St. Charles Hospital.

Talking Points:

• For more than 100 years, St. Charles Hospital has functioned as the leading center for rehabilitation for children and adults with special needs and severe injuries. If implemented as they now stand, the recommendations would greatly jeopardized the future of St. Charles thus threatening the continued provision of these much needed services.
• In the Mather-St. Charles Alliance, St. Charles is the sole provider of obstetric services and delivers more than 2,400 babies each year. Without an Emergency Department or critical care beds, St. Charles would not be able to safely deliver babies or care for mothers presenting with pregnancy or birth-related complications.
• There is no other hospital in the region that offers the scope and quality of orthopedic surgery that St. Charles does. The hospital performs the most total joint replacements in Suffolk County with more than 700 in 2006 and recently was the first in the world to perform specialty orthopedic surgeries.
• Each year, 25,000 patients are treated in St. Charles's Emergency Department. The surge of patients and the resulting admissions could not be safely accommodated by other area hospitals.
• These recommendations would result in even longer periods of wait time for critical, emergency care and vital surgery.
• In the event of a terrorist attack, bird flu, SARS outbreak or even a bad flu season, St. Charles’s ER will be needed to accommodate the surge of patients. In the event of a hurricane - hospitals on the South Shore would be knocked out and there will be a need for hospitals that are elevated above sea level. In the event of a terrorist attack in NYC, St. Charles will be needed to absorb overflow.

 

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