McCutcheon said, “We cannot continue to exist the way we are.”

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  “We cannot continue to exist the way we are.”,

McCutcheon said.

This article is from ALPOLITICALREPORTER. Speaker of the House Mac McCutcheon describes a change in rural healthcare.

HELLO...we applaud Representative McCutcheon about his plans and what he addressed the Alabama Association of County Commissioners this past week in Auburn on this issue.

Hopefully two of the Houston County Commissioners listened. They think they know everything to have never been involved in emergency healthcare. After being elected both think they know everything to know very little.

I am talking about Houston County Commissioners Ricky Herring and Brandon Shoupe.

Neither Herring or Shoupe have ever been involved in the fire and EMS field. They have no idea of the operations of the fire and EMS and what the emergency responders go through.

Because until I rolled up my sleeves and went to work with Dothan - Houston County Emergency Management, I had no idea.

And I started in 1977. But my focus has always been in the law enforcement arena. Until I started responding with the fire and EMS in the county, until I started keeping the stat numbers for the departments of fire and EMS calls, I did not realize the obstacles these men and women face.

Herring and Shoupe "think" they have the answers. But neither even understand the question.

Hopefully the Alabama Legislature will work to solve the issues. And in this will solve the overcrowding of the emergency rooms.

TRUE LIFE IN HOUSTON COUNTY   

One day I arrived behind Pilcher Ambulance on a CPR in progress call. KNowing the family I took the wife and another family member in a room in order to shield them from watching the CPR. Knowing the son I called him and said I have your mom, she is well taken care of. The ambulance crews are working on your dad.

DO NOT come home because you will meet the ambulance, wait, I can not tell you what hospital they are going to. So sit and wait and I will let you know as the load the ambulance and tell you what hospital they are taking your dad. Because Southeast Health is on Diversion.

A helpless feeling in telling a son "hey, they are working on your dad. Do not come home. But I can not tell you what hospital they are taking your dad". HELPLESS FEELING for me as I told the son that. And while I have never talked with him, sure it was a helpless feeling for him as well.

 

McCutcheon says that legislature will address rural healthcare

ALABAMA:   On Wednesday, Speaker of the House Mac McCutcheon (R-Monrovia) told a gathering of the Alabama County Commissioners Association in Auburn that the Alabama legislature will likely work on addressing rural healthcare in the 2020 legislative session.

McCutcheon said that the legislature is “Working on rural healthcare,” and is looking at rural clinics.

“We need to provide healthcare services to people in rural areas that aren’t getting it,” McCutcheon said. We need to make changes that “Will steer those covered by Medicaid away from the emergency home.”

McCutcheon said that proper care for things like diabetes and pregnancy will avoid bad outcomes and costly emergency room care.

McCutcheon said that there is a study underway and that, “The data we receive from this will be come invaluable to us.”

“I have a battle ahead of us from the Hospital Association,” McCutcheon predicted.

“If a hospital has twenty beds, you have to staff that hospital for all twenty beds,” McCutcheon explained. “Some of these hospitals don’t average seven patients a month. That is not cost effective.”

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