The Secret Health Care Study

[Mark Kindt]

Here is the Secret Health Care Study Commissioned by The City of Lakewood in 2018

No mention of whether or not an acute care hospital providing $7,000,000 annually in charity care would benefit Lakewood residents.

Study the problem after all the major public policy choices have been made and all of the funds and assets have been transferred to private parties.

I WILL SAY IT AGAIN: LAKEWOOD OHIO -- DUMBEST CITY IN THE UNITED STATES

[Mark Kindt]

Last week, the Plain Dealer published a front-page story on the increase in the uninsured population in Ohio.

We can infer that this also means that Lakewood's uninsured population increased.

As I have noted in other posts, one of Lakewood's largest healthcare problems is simply the high rate of citizens (including children) who lack medical insurance.

The is fully-documented in the not-so-secret 2018 healthcare study, posted above.

Where we once had almost $7,000,000 in charity care services, we now have ruins being deeded to the Mayor's developer for unaffordable townhouses and luxury apartments.

Good work, Lakewood planning employees!

[Bridget Conant]

we now have ruins being deeded to the Mayor's developer for unaffordable townhouses and luxury apartments.

Don’t forget the bricks and mortar retail.

You know, the dying industry?

The development that has NOT ONE signed tenant or letter of intent that is now looking at a looming recession?

[Jim O'Bryan]

Last week, the Plain Dealer published a front-page story on the increase in the uninsured population in Ohio.

We can infer that this also means that Lakewood's uninsured population increased.

As I have noted in other posts, one of Lakewood's largest healthcare problems is simply the high rate of citizens (including children) who lack medical insurance.

The is fully-documented in the not-so-secret 2018 healthcare study, posted above.

Where we once had almost $7,000,000 in charity care services, we now have ruins being deeded to the Mayor's developer for unaffordable townhouses and luxury apartments.

Good work, Lakewood planning employees!

Mark

You know it is funny that you brought this up, and timely as well. Just last week I was speaking with a person on one of the many, many, many healthy, active, Lakewood, sports, etc committees. I think we are up to ten of these right now. They are active in all forms of sports, schools and committees and they had never heard of the secret study.

The conversation started when he mentioned, "Healthiest City in America" and I asked him if he knew where that BS sales tag came from. He had no idea, I mentioned a $50,000 study Lakewood did on health, wellness and the future of Lakewood. I said the only thing they grabbed out of it was the title, the part about health care, needing hospitals, and how important insurance was for those in Lakewood that could not afford it. He laughed and said, "Well that is everything Lakewood did the opposite of." I said of course it was. What other city spends $50,000 for a secret health study, to merely throw it away? Well Lakewood of course. Secret studies to go with secret government with secret deals.

Thanks for posting.

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[Mark Kindt]

Last week, the Plain Dealer published a front-page story on the increase in the uninsured population in Ohio.

We can infer that this also means that Lakewood's uninsured population increased.

As I have noted in other posts, one of Lakewood's largest healthcare problems is simply the high rate of citizens (including children) who lack medical insurance.

The is fully-documented in the not-so-secret 2018 healthcare study, posted above, reviewed by dozens of municipal insiders.

Where we once had almost $7,000,000 in charity care services annually, we now have ruins being deeded to the Mayor's developer for unaffordable townhouses and luxury apartments.

Good work, Lakewood planning employees! --Dismantle healthcare serving the neediest. --Commit those same resources to serve the interest of the wealthiest.

[Mark Kindt]

Diverting More Public Revenue To Private Parties

If I understand the article in Today's edition of Crain's, the City of Lakewood is also now reporting that it is preparing to transfer some proceeds from its misguided liquidation of Lakewood Hospital into another private foundation that is being created.

More on this as I learn more.

[Bill Call]

I can see why they hid the study.

Spiritual health?

Downtown east has poor access to libraries even though it is home to the Madison Branch?
Downtown east has poor access to pharmacies and grocers?

Really?

Recommendations:

"Develop a strategy and road map" What does that mean?

How about this:

Create a “block watch” model around
health and wellness with Resident Health
Ambassadors

So it's a critical function of government to send busy bodies around town to make sure you buy the right groceries, don't drive the car and eat your spinach?

The presentation spends a lot of time on mental health. Will your new Wellness Ambassador be monitoring politically correct thinking?

How about this:

Develop a training and incentivization
program for Resident Health
Ambassadors

Who pays these ambassadors?

There is talk around town of the Mayor's desire to transfer more City funds to a new private foundation. Is this the purpose of the new foundation, to fund block watch ambassadors to monitor the people of Lakewood?

Does Jason Shachner have any thoughts on this?

Does Brad Presutto have any thoughts on this?

The Mayor and his friends have transferred millions of Lakewood dollars to private foundations and are set to transfer even more. The loss of that money will damage the financial health of the City. Do you care?

Here is a nice model:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee ... Revolution

This is a real hoot:
Recommendations:
1. Commercialize the Connected Health
Community concept and/or technology
2. Develop a center for health tech
innovation and commerce
3. Establish a funding strategy

Let's see, combine all three of the above and you have:

Lakewood Hospital and its attached Foundation

[Dan Alaimo]

Bill, you said many more important things, but this line stopped me cold: "Downtown east has poor access to pharmacies and grocers?"
Who the hell has poor access to pharmacies? They are everywhere. Seems to me grocers are plentiful as well, but pharmacies...

[Mark Kindt]

I want to encourage all readers of the Deck to take a few moments and cruise through the "Not-So-secret Health Care Study" posted above.

Mr. Call has identified some of the absurdities within the "Study". Each reader will likely find their own.

Over the past 5 years, the public policy of the city administration and the civic leadership has been to dismantle our healthcare safety-net. --With nothing to replace it!

Despite the absurdities within the "Study", the healthcare needs of certain groups stand-out:

--Children,

--The uninsured, including uninsured children,

--The elderly,

--The disabled,

--Those with impaired mobility or lacking transportation,

Of the 50,000 residents of Lakewood, most need access to more healthcare, not less.

The city administration has given us a new deprivation-model of healthcare, when new hospitals are opening all over Northeast Ohio.

They have magic beans that can transform an award-winning public community hospital into new townhouses that no average resident can ever get near to affording.

This year there should be a 2019 Community Healthcare Needs Assessment completed by Fairview Hospital. It will have Lakewood data about real needs and utilization.

Not the Mayor's public relations fantasy about healthiest city in America.

[Mark Kindt]

REPORT Community Health Needs Assessment for Avon

Once you tear down your hospital, you no longer have an institutional mandate for the triennial publication of a community health needs assessment.

So we no longer have professional data about Lakewood healthcare needs!

Here is the current one for the new Avon hospital (2018)

Use the search term "Lakewood" and see what you find. --Zip, zilch, zero, nothing, nada.

Bravo! Lakewood Planning Department!

[Mark Kindt]

Why The Rubble on Detroit and Belle Matters

This is for Council-member Bullock:

If you make a decision to dismantle public civil infrastructure, you need to have some understanding of what you are dismantling.

So, left in the rubble on Detroit and Belle, is a sophisticated medical/healthcare data collection infrastructure for the Lakewood community.

Please explain where that sophisticated medical/healthcare data collection infrastructure went. Who has it now? Yes, this is abstract infrastructure, but it is real never-the-less.

Perhaps it exists in bits and bytes on some random network server. Avon has it for their community. We do not!

[Bridget Conant]

Some observations on the “Community” Health Needs for Avon in 2018.

The “community” of Avon includes no less than 18 zip codes and a population of over 415,000 people! That’s a remarkably large area and ignores other health facilities in Lorain county, but it sure looks good for CCF in terms of who they are “serving.”

Also, the boundaries of that “community” miraculously have an eastern border ending at the eastern border of Rocky River. Lakewood is NOT considered as part of that “community,” making it very clear they intended to abandon Lakewood completely.

Just remarkable!

[lrodriguezcarbone]

The study as attached at the beginning of this thread confirms findings I shared in the Lakewood Observer on July 4, 2019 (http://lakewoodobserver.com/read/2019/0 ... u9SJARcnvI).

When hospitals close or are downgraded we, as public health professionals, worry about population health and access to care. This study sheds light onto many of the health gaps I have already been talking about with residents in Ward 1, especially with regard to senior access to care, transportation access, health insurance access, unemployment, and food insecurity experienced by Lakewood’s children and senior populations. In speaking with folks at the new Lakewood Family Health Center, in addition to the City of Lakewood’s Human Services Department, the largest health issue they identified in Lakewood is diabetes and the largest access to care issue we have is lack of transportation. This is why I proposed a reinstatement of our Health Department and our community circulator, so we can ensure these issues are addressed actively now. There is much we can do to help meet residents where they are today in Lakewood before access to care gaps become more pronounced, but we need to be proactive and have a plan in place to protect the health and well-being of our residents and our city as a whole.

If anyone has any questions about the study, I would be more than happy to answer here, chat or meet. I think it is important to foster these conversations as they hone in on everyday life for the people who live in Lakewood. I firmly believe our city policies need to be locally focused and based on a wide array of feedback and input from residents. I am grateful for the hundreds of residents who have shared their feedback on this issue with me so far.

-Laura Rodriguez-Carbone

[Mark Kindt]

The study as attached at the beginning of this thread confirms findings I shared in the Lakewood Observer on July 4, 2019 (http://lakewoodobserver.com/read/2019/0 ... u9SJARcnvI).

When hospitals close or are downgraded we, as public health professionals, worry about population health and access to care. This study sheds light onto many of the health gaps I have already been talking about with residents in Ward 1, especially with regard to senior access to care, transportation access, health insurance access, unemployment, and food insecurity experienced by Lakewood’s children and senior populations. In speaking with folks at the new Lakewood Family Health Center, in addition to the City of Lakewood’s Human Services Department, the largest health issue they identified in Lakewood is diabetes and the largest access to care issue we have is lack of transportation. This is why I proposed a reinstatement of our Health Department and our community circulator, so we can ensure these issues are addressed actively now. There is much we can do to help meet residents where they are today in Lakewood before access to care gaps become more pronounced, but we need to be proactive and have a plan in place to protect the health and well-being of our residents and our city as a whole.

If anyone has any questions about the study, I would be more than happy to answer here, chat or meet. I think it is important to foster these conversations as they hone in on everyday life for the people who live in Lakewood. I firmly believe our city policies need to be locally focused and based on a wide array of feedback and input from residents. I am grateful for the hundreds of residents who have shared their feedback on this issue with me so far.

-Laura Rodriguez-Carbone

Thank you for taking the time to post your thoughtful comments in this thread.