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Hospital
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I don’t
doctors four times a year
do that anymore.”
Luttbeg also sees a lot more spe
cialists in Bryan-College Station.
“In the past, a lot of people were
in the habit of going out of town for
specialists,” Luttbeg said. “Now, be
cause of the number of specialists in
town, that isn’t necessary.
Sweeney said the number of doc
tors in Bryan-College Station has
doubled in the last five years.
Dick Haddox, a member of the
College Station City Council and the
vice chairman of the College Station
Economic Development Founda
tion, said that people who migrate to
Houston hospitals might begin to
use the local health facilities since
there are now so many.
“I lived in Houston for 15 years
before I moved back (to College Sta
tion),” Haddox said. “When I left
College Station there were one or
two pediatricians — that was about
all (he specialists.
“Today they have many more spe
cialists, and the more you have, the
more people from Caldwell, Mad-
isonville, Snook and Navasota will
come here rather than go to Hous
ton."
Sweeney said that if both Humana
and St. Joseph bring in patients
from outside areas, Bryan-College
Station will become a medical center.
But Luttbeg said it’s too early to
know what effect the new Humana
Hospital will have on St. Joseph.
“I don’t think there will be that
much difference,” she said. “There
were already two hospitals in the
area. Now one is just bigger and
newer.”
Luttbeg said although the two
hospitals will push each other to ex
cel, there may be some unnecessary
duplication of equipment.
Herring said, however, that most
of the 35 added beds at the new hos
pital are allocated to new services,
not just to expanding current pro
grams.
Another concern, Browne said, is
that Humana Hospital is a cor
porate, profit-motivated hosptial
and will finacially hurt the Catholic
“With two hospitals you
have competition and
hopef ully, competition re
sults in improvement. ”
— Dr. David Hackethorn,
Scott 8c White Clinic medi
cal director
Church-operated St. Joseph Hospi
tal.
The indigent patients will be sent
to St. Joseph, while patients paying
for their medical services will go to
Humana, causing St. Joseph to lose
money, she said.
Browne points to the obstetrics
department as an example of what
could be a major problem for the
two hospitals.
St. Joseph has invested a lot of
money in its neonatal care unit to
take care of newborn babies that are
seriously ill, but Browne said that
with the construction of Humana’s
obstetrics ward in its new facility, po
tential St. Joseph patients will be
taken by Humana and sick babies
too expensive to treat will be sent to
St. Joseph.
St. Joseph will end up with indi
gent pregnant women, teenage pre
gnancies and critically ill babies, she
said, while Humana will get healthy
babies from parents who can pay
their bills.
Herring said that, although ill ba
bies will be transferred by a doctor to
St. Joseph from Humana, patients
coming to the door with a medical
need will be treated, regardless of
their ability to pay.
Sweeney said that in the case of in
digent patient care, there isn’t as
much difference between Humana
and St. Joseph as one might think.
“St. Joseph has to make a profit
just to survive,” he said. “You can’t
improve or expand if you don’t
make a profit.”
Hackethorn said he doubts there
will be a problem and that Humana
will provide service for anyone who
goes there.
Luttbeg agrees that Humana will
provide care to indigent patients,
but she doesn’t rule out the possibil
ity of a problem in the future.
“We (St. Joseph Hospital) really
don’t know if that is going to happen
or not,” she said. “If someone shows
up at Humana about to deliver,
they’re not going to kick them out.”
Herring said the added obstetrics
department at Humana is important
to have in the community because it
gives women a choice of hospitals.
Hackethorn also thinks a choice of
facilities is important, especially
from the aspect of competitivness.
Local doctors with private prac
tices belong to one group that may
not support the new Humana Hos
pital, not because either hospital
may lose money, Hackethorn said,
but because the buildings are too far
apart.
If doctors had patients in both
Humana and St Joseph hospitals be
fore the April move, they had less
than 100 yards to walk between the
buildings. With the new Humana lo
cated nearly 8 miles away from St.
Joseph, the doctors must spend
more time in their cars.
However, Dr. Sudhir D. Patel, an
obstetrician and gynecologist whose
office is in Bryan, near St. Joseph
and the old Humana, said most peo
ple in the Bryan-College Station area
are used to driving to both commu
nities anyway.
“I don’t see any problem,” he said.
Luttbeg said the location of the
new facility also will be a bonus to
the people who live in College Sta
tion because accident victims in that
part of town will have an easier trip
to a hospital.
Hackethorn said that with the
number of specialists, the quality of
existing facilities and the addition of
new facilities, such as Humana and
the Scott & White Clinic, the area is
keeping pace with other cities.
“Many of the changes in the
health care facilities have paralleled
the changes of other cities through
out the state and the country,” he
said. “I really think this area is evolv
ing into a first-class medical commu
nity, compared to other areas of this
size,” he said.
But Sweeney said the only real test
of the need for the new Humana
Hospital will be time.
“If this expansion is a needless du
plication it will eventually die out,”
he said.
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