Spotlight on Healthcare

Here's a good example of healthcare. Bet he wishes he had a choice.

Loudoun County, Virginia- The Fairfax Medical Examiners Office has
determined the death of a Fauquier man found unresponsive in his home
Wednesday was the result of injuries he sustained in a car accident in
Loudoun earlier in the day.

Fred Marion Legg, III, 87, was discovered at his home by a neighbor who
checked on him twice after the accident. When the neighbor checked on
Legg around 10 PM Wednesday night the man was discovered to be sitting
in a chair and non-responsive.

Legg was in an accident shortly after 2 PM Wednesday on Route 7 at the
intersection Belmont Ridge Road. The vehicle Legg was a passenger in
did not completely stop for a car stopped for traffic causing minor
contact between the two cars. A third car then struck the rear of the
vehicle Legg was riding in.

He was taken to the Lansdowne Campus of Loudoun Hospital Center where
he was treated and released.

After Legg was discovered in his home several hours later he would
later be transported to the Cornwall Campus of Loudoun Hospital where he
would be pronounced dead.

This is the third fatality on Loudoun's roadways so far this year. At
this time last year there had been a total of eight traffic-related
fatalities.

 

AFGM, sounds like you're surprised that deaths occur at hospitals. Do you even know any of the facts about this case??? I doubt it. Maybe just maybe he REFUSED medical treatment OR maybe he left the hospital against medical advice. Do you think either of these options could have occured or are you so set in your blinded support of HCA that anything that occurs at LHC is because people have no choice. Get over yourself and this issue, it's in the courts and most of the local authorities have voted for what they think is in the best interest of ALL residents. IMHO

 

Yeah.... I was wondering the same thing.
So an HCA hospital in Broadlands would solve this nasty problem.
Those nasty LHC people, how can they call themselves a hospital.... sending a poor 87 year old man home thinking he was okay. Shame on them....

 

Donna,

I was hoping you would see this post. Thought you might have been working at the hospital that day. As a result you would be able to provide some insight into how the hospital could have released a man that later died from his injuries. I was curious why they didn't see the serious of his injuries hours earlier.

And since you seem to be into speculating, I wonder why they didn't ship him over to Reston Hospital. That might have saved his life. Just speculating of course.

 

AFGM, are you trolling again?

Just speculating, of course.[)]

Happy Easter, everybody.

Barbara Munsey, from South Riding.

 

Well AFGM, guess you hit a touchy subject!!! What exactly did the guy die from?

 

Well, if I was to speculate...inadequate emergency care. Or he got of tired of waiting, which is Donna's speculated view, and he left.

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Gosh AFGM, I don't think I said he got tired of waiting. I'll give you one thing...You are the master of putting words into peoples mouths, and that is not a speculation.

 

According to the Post, he died from complications of the accident. He was treated and released from LHI.

Without a full autopsy report, all you can do is speculate. However, the guy was 87, in an auto accident. The original article does not say, nor does the Post article say if he was wearing a seatbelt. It does not say what he was treated and released for, it does not say if he went in, refused to stay overnight and signed himself out.

I'm not a doctor, and if I was, I would not diagnose via a newspaper article, so saying that this was all due to another hospital not being available is complete speculation, and the means for starting a flame war.

Lets get over it people, its in the courts now, and whatever side you're on, lets see what happens next and not try to inflame!!

Thanks.





Neil Z.
Resident since 1999

 

Please spare me the "best interest of ALL residents" propaganda. I heard Mr. Snow state in a commmunity meeting that he would suppport any hospital "as long as it was built in South Riding". yep. Sure sounds like he is looking out for ALL of our interests.

From the Leesburg Today
“I want to make sure this plan says where the next hospital is built,” said Supervisor Stephen J. Snow (R-Dulles), adding that he doesn’t care who builds it. “It should be built along the Rt. 50 corridor. Broadlands doesn’t work for me.”

I see so what really is in ALL of our best interests is to delay the building of a 2nd hospital in Loudoun (which is is critically needed today) by at least 10 years.

From the Leesburg Today
“Although most details of the LHI-Inova merger are secret, documents filed with state regulators state that it could be as long as 12 years before it would begin construction of a Dulles South Community Hospital, if such as facility were permitted by the state health commissioner."

Wow, thanks for correcting my understanding of the issue. I would have gone on thinking that getting a 2nd hospital now would be in all of our best interests, not killing the hospital we can have for one we might get in 10 to 15 years. I sure would've been embarrased at the next cocktail party when I mistakenly supported a hospital we need and can get now over waiting for a future, potential, probable, more-than-likely, if the need arises, if the state agrees, if someone actaully wants to build, hospital of the future.

 

Welcome to the speculation game Neil.

 

You could say that the hospital site was bought on 'speculation' !!

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Neil Z.
Resident since 1999