Mission Statement
As a Catholic healthcare ministry, we provide comprehensive and compassionate care that improves the health of the people we serve.

I received a call for help early this morning.  Money is needed.  The girlfriend is very ill, vomitting, hot and cold flashes, and in a lot of pain.  The emergency room at St. Elizabeth South in Kentucky saw her then sent her home early this morning after giving her morphine.  Diagnosis is a bacterial infection and a possible burst ovarian cyst.  They handed her 3 prescriptions for which she has no insurance nor money to fill and advised her to follow up with her doctor for an ultrasound.

Hmmm.  What a great nation this is.  They told her what is wrong and hopefully it is a good diagnosis since they didn't bother to do any scans to confirm or check if she has a more serious issue.  She has had a problem for a while now and the last time St. Luke said it was an ulcer also with no scans and giving her prescrips that she couldn't fill so her father bought some over the counter things to help.  The kids didn't even bother to call her father this time.

The youth is 19, homeless because her father lost his job after his company moved the factory to Mexico, and she thankfully therefore qualifies for food stamps so she now gets to eat.  The good part is that my son has checked and the generic brands at Kroger for the 3 prescrips are less than $20.  I sent him to my friend to get 20 since I can't get over there due to the snowstorm having me boxed in.

All those opposing healthcare should get such calls in the early morning hours and turn their limited grey matter to figuring out how to obtain healthcare for the young people in their lives.  No insurance allowed because that would be cheating.  Put the know-it-all attitude to obtaining care without funds or insurance and let's see how they do.

The youth has been looking for work and has a job interview today at 3pm at Wendy's.  If all goes well, the Vicodin and morphine will get her through the interview and she will be hired.  Gotta love this country.  Only in America can the youths have it so awesomely great.

In an ironic twist, this is the same hospital that would not perform a previously planned tubal ligation on a woman after merging with St. Luke last year.  The woman had her prenatal at St. Luke, but had to cross the river into Ohio to have her baby after the hospitals merged because the tubal was nixed by this same hospital group.  We must not prevent babies, and when they are 19, well... comprehensive and compassionate care according to the mission.  I'm not seeing it.