{"id":3086,"date":"2006-05-10T02:53:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-10T02:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3086"},"modified":"2017-12-20T16:27:16","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T22:27:16","slug":"where-will-they-put-the-plaque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/10\/where-will-they-put-the-plaque\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Will They Put the Plaque?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The hospital where I was born <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/index.aspx?id=421923\" target=\"_new\">is closing<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>St. Michael Hospital, which is losing millions of dollars annually, will close its emergency room and most other departments starting June 5 &#8211; greatly scaling back a major health care provider for a large number of poor people.<\/p>\n<p>St. Michael, 2400 W. Villard Ave., is closing its emergency room and inpatient services because the hospital&#8217;s non-profit corporate parent, Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare, can no longer afford them, John Oliverio, Wheaton Franciscan president and chief executive officer, said Monday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess this might have been foreshadowing:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Glendale-based Wheaton Franciscan, which recently changed it name from Covenant Healthcare System, &#8220;doesn&#8217;t have the ability to fund indefinitely the types of losses we&#8217;ve incurred at St. Michael&#8217;s,&#8221; Oliverio said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Convenant, as you know, means a sacred contract or an agreement.  I guess were it Covenant, the company would be bound to providing care to those with whom it has made the compact.  Wheaton Franciscan, on the other hand, is just a health care system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hospital where I was born is closing: St. Michael Hospital, which is losing millions of dollars annually, will close its emergency room and most other departments starting June 5 &#8211; greatly scaling back a major health care provider for a large number of poor people. St. Michael, 2400 W. Villard Ave., is closing its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18782,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3086\/revisions\/18782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}