Do you think a hospital should turn you away when ...

Do you think a hospital should turn you away when you need lung cancer surgery? I personally feel with the hospital being a non profit trauma center, should turn no one away....period

Baptist Hospital turned me away on January 18, 2019, because I could not come up with $4,160, before the surgery on Jan. 24. They just canceled my surgery and I had to wait to file my taxes in order to apply for charity care. The financial assistant who turned me away sat and cried with me.

This really caused me so much unnecessary stress and a lot of other issues. I lost a lot of weight from worrying how I was going to get the money to save my life. Not to mention I have an abdominal aorta aneurysm which can grow if under a lot of stress. Plus the lung cancer is growing at one millimeter a month.

I just pray after I have my say with higher ups at Baptist Hospital - the policy will change.

No one needs to endure the pain, stress, emotional anguish, etc. as i have for almost a month worrying how I was going to get the money to have this surgery and save my life.

What is your take on hospitals turning people away if they can not pay at the time of services, if it means saving their life?