mpjjpm t1_j6b4131 wrote
All of the hospitals in the city are having financial struggles, along with hospitals nationwide. Boston has too many academic medical centers for the size of the population, which hurt Tufts children’s (Floating Hospital) - they were competing with Boston Children’s and MGH. Tufts will be fine for residency. They are somewhat protected as the teaching hospital for Tufts Medical School - if the hospital closes, it would be tough for the med school to continue, so they are too big to fail, so to speak.
No_Newspaper_2714 t1_j6cvdec wrote
The shutdown of the floating hospital had nothing to do with supply and demand. People travel from all over the world for treatment in Boston.
They closed the floating hospital because it wasn’t profitable. The floating hospital was heavily utilized by low income minorities, more so than other local children’s hospitals, and they didn’t want to shoulder that cost anymore. Aside from protecting their bottom line there was also a sentiment of spite towards the other children’s hospitals that rejected low income patients and sent them to Tufts. This was all within the hospital admin and not the way patient facing staff felt.
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