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Carle Foundation Hospital looks to merge with Carle Clinic
According to a press release from the Carle Foundation Hospital, the integration will improve the healthcare provided to individuals throughout the region. Carle Foundation and Carle Clinic have been working together on studies and research and expect the integration to provide unity and communication, according to the press release.
Carle Foundation is a non-profit organization and has offered to purchase Carle Clinic for $250 million making the clinic run as non-profit, according to the press release. The Clinic will follow all financial policies on the Carle Foundation if the integration is approved.
Bruce Wellman, president and CEO of Carle Clinic Association, said in the press release, "We believe this integration will improve all aspects of the patient care experience."
According the press release, with the intergration, the employees of Carle Clinic will become employees of The Carle Foundation.
In a press release on October 20th, the Champaign County Health Care Consumers (CCHCC) said it supported the merger. CCHCC is still seeking assurance on several issue with Carle, including management, community dialogue, community benefits, and obligations of Health Alliance.
On Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 10:00 a.m., Champaign County Health Care Consumers (CCHCC) will attend the Certificate of Need Hearing, held by the Illinois Health Facility Planning Board, on the issue of the Carle Clinic & Carle Foundation Hospital merger.
As a community advocacy group, CCHCC is very supportive of the merger, while also seeking formal assurances from Carle on outstanding issues. CCHCC believes this merger could be the single best thing to happen to the community to increase affordable access to health care because, as part of the merger, Carle Clinic would become a non-profit physician group that abides by the Carle Hospital financial assistance policies.
However, CCHCC is seeking assurances from Carle on several outstanding issues, including policies guiding the new organization's management, lifting the "no-service" bans on patients from Carle Clinic, a commitment to ongoing community dialogue, community benefits, including payments-in-lieu of property taxes, and obligations of Health Alliance insurance company, which will remain a for-profit subsidiary of the new Carle organization.
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I hope that this merger will improve the patient accounts at carle clinic. I have been paying on a bill and now they are threatning to turn me into collections or turn it over to their lawyer. I suppose they have not got the memo that over 50 percent of forclosures and bankruptcys are caused by medical bills. Mrs. shipman even encouraged bankruptcy stating to me that " the bankruptcy court will let you keep your vehicle and your home". The management (mrs. shipman) in patient accounts are not very easy negotiate with, they seem to lack the knowledge of simple economics. Carle Clinic Foundation has always worked with families where as the Clinic will not because as mrs. shipman puts it "we are a for profit organization". The community care discount program for Carle Foundation is to help uninsured families. The federal poverty level for individuals where the hospital will help 100% is $21,660. I made $20,284 last year and Mrs. Shipman told me "can't you get a loan on your vehicle to pay this bill off". I am not trying to get out of a clinic bill but when I get a letter stating that I am not cooperating with them I am at a loss. Mrs. Shipman told me in our last conversation "pay what you can until your work picks up" and that is just what I did. I pay $25.00 to $50.00 dollars a month and that is taking money from somewhere else to pay the Clinic. My total bill is $1300.00 and they want to ruin my credit for trying.
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