HEALTH CARE WITH A HEART - HEALTHCARE IN OUR HANDS
YOUR DONATIONS CAN SAVE OUR MARINA HOSPITAL!
On April 8, 2003 Tenet announced that
they would keep our Daniel Freeman Marina Hospital open indefinitely. Less than
nine months later - here we are again.
Tenet announced plans on Jan. 28, 2004 to
sell and close more than 27 hospitals in the United States, 19 in the Southern
California region – 15 in Los Angeles County! The impact of Tenet’s
decision is devastating to our healthcare system. It is like being hit by an 8.5
magnitude earthquake with no plan of action for the aftermath. There are no
guarantees that all of these hospitals will sell and/or stay
open.
The Daniel Freeman Marina
Hospital and ER is on this list. We are the closest hospital to LAX, which is
the #1 terrorist target in the State of California. Together in Phase I, we made
history by Saving Our Marina Hospital from closure. We will make history again
in Phase II with a plan of action that calls for conversion of our hospital to
community ownership.
We CAHRE –
Community Action for Healthcare Reform and Education, was created to continue
the work of SOMH - Save Our Marina Hospital. We CAHRE is about helping to save
lives and we care about your health and our children’s health care
future!
We CAHRE has applied for a
501(c) 3 designation to be the non-profit public benefit corporate arm of SOMH.
We CAHRE’s mission has had two
goals since our inception:
We CAHRE
has educated and exported our SOMH experience to others in need across the
country to help them protect their healthcare delivery systems, saving lives and
vital health care jobs from for-profit hospital corporations.
We CAHRE has a business plan in place
to take over ownership, operations and management of the Daniel Freeman Marina
Hospital on behalf of the community, in anticipation of Tenet’s plans to
abandon the hospital, emergency room and medical office
building.
With the full cooperation of
legislators, medical staff, hospital employees and the community, We CAHRE will
create a model health center for Los Angeles and for the nation. Our team of
healthcare professionals and community leaders who have been working on this
plan for the last two years, will reinstate this hospital to its former
non-profit status, and improve it to serve the needs of our rapidly growing
population.
Projections indicate that that
there will be six million more residents in Los Angeles by the year 2025 - a
dramatic increase that will require 66% more acute care beds beyond what now
exist in Los Angeles. (Source: Solucient Studies
2002)
Tenet’s decision to divest
itself of its community hospitals, including ours, will result in a higher
morbidity rate in the community. Without our Marina Hospital, residents
requiring ER care may die while en route to a more-distant hospital – and
that is a tragic possibility! And even the more-distant Westside hospitals will
not have the bed or ER capacity to handle the flood of patients. Most likely
many physicians will be unable to continue to practice in this area due to the
lack of hospital beds!
HOW YOU CAN
DIRECTLY HELP – We CAHRE needs EMERGENCY donations of any amount. We, the
community, own our hospital and control our
destiny.
If each person in the
350,000-population area served by our Marina Hospital generously donates just
$54.00 or more per person and becomes a stakeholder in We CAHRE, this will
provide sufficient funds for acquiring the hospital, ensuring its operation
during the transition, and having the reserves necessary to provide proper
stability and steady growth. We will need a few years to complete the
transition, and will need funds set aside for major equipment upgrading and
careful program additions to fit the growing needs of our community. Seismic
retrofitting will also be a part of our capital improvement plan.
Here’s an opportunity for each
and every member of our incredible community to participate and take pride in
the future development of our Marina Hospital. If ever there was a time to
donate generously to a cause so vital to our well being, it is now. With all of
your help and hearts we will achieve this monumental challenge
together.
Please contact us through our
website (www.somh.org -- Save Our Marina Hospital) to add yourself to our email
database (so we can keep you informed) and visit our website daily for updated
information.
PLEASE MAKE TAX DEDUCTIBLE
CHECKS PAYABLE TO:
We CAHRE, P. O. Box 5393,
Playa del Rey, CA. 90296
THANK YOU SO
MUCH FOR HELPING TO MAKE HISTORY!
Julie
Inouye, Executive Director
We CAHRE –
Community Action for Healthcare Reform and
Education
Founder SOMH – Save Our
Marina Hospital
www.somh.org •
310.306.1487T • 310.306.5045F •
JulieInouye@WeCAHRE.org
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Posted: Mon - March 1, 2004 at 05:27 PM