{"id":916672,"date":"2020-08-20T14:24:10","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T19:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=916672"},"modified":"2020-08-21T14:24:01","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T19:24:01","slug":"ut-health-great-concern-for-patients-not-being-seen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=916672","title":{"rendered":"UT Health great concern for patients not being seen"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"TYLER — The financial impact of the coronavirus has taken its toll, but maybe an even bigger concern is for people not addressing health issues, outside of COVID-19. Donald Baker, COO for U T Health East Texas said, “Those numbers are in the tens of millions of dollars of lost revenues for demands and services that we would normally see, and they just haven’t occurred during this window. And for us focused on community health, that’s a real concern. We know there are services that are needed. Screening services that are needed. Services for patients, where they need help that sometimes gets put off because of those concerns. And it’s been not just a tremendous impact on our business, from a revenue stand point, but we are really concerned about what that means to the community and we are working to help.”<\/p>\n

\"\"Baker continued, “There has been a significant increase in PPE. It’s an increase in utilization, it’s an increase of cost of acquiring that equipment, that is so important to keep our care givers safe, keep the patient safe, keep the families safe. We are trying to address that in this this environment.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TYLER — The financial impact of the coronavirus has taken its toll, but maybe an even bigger concern is for people not addressing health issues, outside of COVID-19. Donald Baker, COO for U T Health East Texas said, “Those numbers are in the tens of millions of dollars of lost revenues for demands and services … Continue reading UT Health great concern for patients not being seen<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":861709,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-916672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-03 06:13:20","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=916672"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":916676,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916672\/revisions\/916676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/861709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=916672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=916672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=916672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}