My health care provider is at a rural health clinic

[CountAllVotes]

I've been seeing the same person for several years and I thought I had an appt. coming up soon.

Luckily, I still write everything down in a diary. I checked and yes, I have an appt. on Tuesday.

Normally they start calling you a week in advance to remind you and to notify you so if you have to reschedule you have time to do it.

Well, no call this time (I am only seen once every three months).

Seems the person/system that calls has been laid off for an unknown period of time and may not ever return.

Not everyone keeps a written diary these days; I am one of few people that still do.

I guess dumpy has begun to spread his evil far and wide and has managed to hit this very rural area in the far pacific NW of California.

Thanks for nothing. Would you mr. dump get OUT OF MY LIFE AND LEAVE ME AND OTHERS AROUND HERE ALONE?

[sinkingfeeling]

1. You'll be lucky if your clinic survives.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/community-health-centers-face-funding-delays-after-trump-administration-freeze

Federally funded community health centers in at least 10 states are experiencing delays accessing their funds, forcing some to shut down and others to contemplate closures, several officials tell PBS News.

[CountAllVotes]

2. I posted this on Feb. 7th

We are girding our loins already ....

This is a poverty stricken area. Almost 30% are on MediCaid, Medi-Cal, etc.

https://www.ijpr.org/politics-government/2025-02-03/federal-funding-cuts-could-severely-hurt-service-providers-in-northern-california

Kill all of us losers here off. WE WILL and ARE FIGHTING, believe me!

We are the elderly, the poor and the disabled. Shame on you America for allowing this to occur.

[marybourg]

3. Well, they're definitely managing to divide us.

[Norrrm]

5. Donald has an expression of his true empathy for you and me... that's too bad.

with the proper voice inflection.

[allegorical oracle]

6. Am in the same rural clinic boat. Don't know if my provider will survive. It's a non-profit chain

of facilities that moved into rural areas that had previously been health "deserts". The website's still up, but....

[CountAllVotes]

8. They just built and staffed a new facility

My provider opted to move there after it was built being she lives nearby and has children that go to the local swimming pool.

So, I followed her there.

The new facility is quite ugly. Its like a prison. No one seems to like the looks of it, that is for sure.

Luckily, I don't go there very often.

There are other places to go for health care but finding a good provider is difficult.

[GusBob]

7. I work in a rural health clinic

Everyone’s sick with very bad flu, staff and patients

Reschedule or wear a mask