Walk on water

The whole day I was trying to either discharge or transfer my patients while I was at the hospital. I got 2 down but wasn’t able to get them all. Census went down drastically throughout the day, but I was still busy running around with little things going on with my patients. The most upsetting part is the fact that some of the doctors withdrew their clinics from the hospital, I considered them the pillers of the place! I couldn’t believe when the director of drug abuse pulled his clinic… And the cardiologist who has a cath lab at the site also bailed out… By God’s grace I did not worry too much about making a living, I think I should be able to survive with 2 jobs… ;b It’s the fact that things change so fast just a matter of days it’s upsetting.

When the disciples encountered the stormy sea and tossed by the waves badly, Jesus went to them. Peter first reacted by asking if he could also walk on water to Jesus, which is quite unexpected. But I think I’m kind of like Peter too, taking up the challenges of life when I have Jesus in my site. I may sink like Peter, but I know that Jesus will help me, and His name would be glorified. And that’s how I can experience the true peace of Christ, only when I’m in the mist of a storm…

Career move

It’s official! It’s in the news now, we are going down…

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Lincoln Park Hospital seeks buyer

Tightened credit market puts it in danger of closing

By Becky Yerak and Bruce Japsen | Chicago Tribune reporters

October 9, 2008

The impact of the credit crisis is spreading to Chicago-area hospitals.

Lincoln Park Hospital is on the sales block and in danger of closing if a deal isn’t struck, partly because the difficulty of getting financing is making it tougher to run the 125-year-old facility.

Cain Brothers, a New York-based investment banking and financial advisory firm, has been hired to sell the hospital, said Michael Curran, the hospital’s chief executive.

Despite its location in one of Chicago’s toniest neighborhoods, the hospital at 550 W. Webster Ave. has been losing money and faces a variety of challenges.

•The Lincoln Park neighborhood has better-capitalized facilities such as Advocate Health Care’s Illinois Masonic Medical Center just a few blocks to the north. Children’s Memorial Hospital is around the block, and Northwestern Memorial Hospital is a 10-minute cab ride downtown.

•Many of its patients are insured by the state Medicaid health insurance program for the poor. Hospitals have complained that Illinois is slow to pay such claims, which can hurt cash flows.

•It lost $15 million on $163 million in annual revenue, according to the latest data available on the American Hospital Directory’s Web site.

•It also needs to spend at least $7 million to update a part of the facility built in 1928.
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I guess it must be a sign for me to initiate plan D… Gladly I look at this as an opportunity, and I’m really thankful that I lack nothing being in the presence of God. He has been looking after me all these years, I still trust Him that this will only bring me into deeper water… closer to Him.