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In a recent story in the Monterey County Herald about Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula's efforts to reign in costs and increase its efficiency, Alice Kinsler weighed in on the topic with a letter to the editor reprinted here for you:
Dear Editor:
As president and CEO of Hospice Foundation, I applaud Community Hospital’s wide-ranging efforts to maintain the quality of its patient care while working to contain its costs of providing services. It is indeed a challenge today for all health care providers as they grapple with steep cuts in reimbursement from government and private insurance. Unless providers are able to find alternative ways to help close the funding gap, it can mean cutting vital services.
Community Hospital and other local providers turn to Hospice Foundation for help to ensure their hospice and other end-of-life care services remain available and high-quality for all families who need them. In October, Hospice Foundation responded to CHOMP with a $517,000 grant to help reduce the impact of its reimbursement/cost gap. In fact, 10 local end-of-life care providers received Hospice Foundation funding in 2009 totaling just over $1 million. But we can’t do this alone. We depend upon our community of donors—the source of these grants—to help us respond to the community’s needs for end-of-life care. Let the providers concentrate on cost-effective and high-quality patient and family services. You can help by joining with Hospice Foundation to support their efforts. It takes a community!
Alice Kinsler
Carmel Valley
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