LSU Health bracing for the possibility of mid-year cuts

[TexasTowelie]

Although LSU Health Shreveport is bracing for the possibility of more cuts to its budget, Dr. G.E. Ghali, the medical school's chancellor, said he'll do everything in his power to save the school's unique level 1 trauma center.

During a meeting Wednesday with various media outlets, Ghali outlined the situation the medical school could find itself in if the state legislature decides to cut funding more this year due to a shortfall in state revenue.

Ghali said the school could be forced to shutter certain departments to save crucial ones such as its trauma center, its St. Judes-affiliated cancer center and its state-of-the-art burn center.

"We don't have much left to cut (without sacrificing services)," he said.

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[Docreed2003]

1. This is all a hangover from the Jindal administration and the current GOP State legislature

Jindal completely dismantled healthcare in Louisiana. LSUS is just one very serious example. In Baton Rouge, they closed the Earl K Long hospital, which traditionally had served the indigent population of the city. When that hospital closed, patients began going to Baton Rouge General, the next closest hospital, because of lack of funding for the overwhelming number of indigent patients they wer receiving, that hospital closed its ER. Now patients are essentially forced to go across town for any type of emergency services and this whole situation was created by Jindal and his approach to slashing anything and everything he could get away with in the budget. The current governor is facing an uphill fight with regards to reinstituting funding for not only healthcare but other services, including the state higher education system.