Public hospitals, taut and tattered safety net.
Struggling under the strains of an exploding indigent caseload, eroding resources, and the coming crisis in primary ambulatory care, some public hospitals are stretched so tightly they have to 'double-dump,' boomeranging intensive care patients back to private institutions.
D003363:Cost Control; D006746:Hospital Bed Capacity, 500 and over; D006766:Hospitals, County / Q000191:economics; D006779:Hospitals, Public / Q000191:economics*; D007087:Illinois; D008489:Medical Indigency; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D014481:United States