[CPEO-IRF] Hospitals and clinics

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Military Update: BRAC would cut inpatient access

By Tom Philpott
Stars and Stripes
July 7, 2005

Military health officials concede that some retirees will see higher 
costs if the Base Realignment and Closure Commission accepts a plan to 
downsize nine stateside hospitals to outpatient clinics and to refer 
patients needing hospitalization to civilian facilities.

Most of these patients, however, still will be treated by military 
physicians under facility-sharing arrangements with local communities, 
said Lt. Gen. George Peach Taylor Jr., the Air Force surgeon general.

Taylor chaired the Medical Joint Cross-Service Group that shaped the 
draft BRAC recommendations on health care. The hospital downsizing plan, 
if accepted by the commission, will affect 148 inpatients a day, 6 
percent of all inpatients treated in military stateside hospitals.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=30209

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