![]() ![]() Many hospitals have converted children’s beds to adult ICU beds during the pandemic and are reluctant to change them back. “If you’re a hospital, that’s a no-brainer.” Daniel Rauch, chief of pediatric hospital medicine for Tufts Medicine, who headed its general pediatric unit until it closed over the summer. ![]() “They’re asking: Should we take care of kids we don’t make any money off of, or use the bed for an adult who needs a bunch of expensive tests?” said Dr. Pediatric units in Colorado Springs, Raleigh, North Carolina, and Doylestown, Pennsylvania, have closed as well. Shriners Children’s New England said it will close its inpatient unit by the end of the year. In July, Tufts Children’s Hospital in Boston followed suit. In April, Henrico Doctors’ Hospital in Richmond, Virginia, ended its pediatric inpatient services. Lachlan Rutledge during a recent visit to the overcrowded emergency room at The Children’s Hospital at Saint Francis in Tulsa, Okla. The reason is stark economics: Institutions make more money from adult patients. Hospitals around the country, from regional medical centers to smaller local facilities are closing down pediatric units. It’s just a question of where we’re going to fight,” said his mother, Aurora Rutledge, looking frightened as she twisted the blond ringlets that poked out from under Lachlan’s Spider-Man headphones. ![]()
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