Help an Aggie doc!

[hillcountryhunter]

Christus Spohn is making a huge mistake in Corpus Christi by closing the Texas A&M Emergency Medicine Residency program via political reasoning within the hospital. This will hurt an already underserved community and leave specialized physicians no reason to remain in the hospital. Please sign the below petition and provide support for a highly regarded program.

https://chng.it/RFXMvyPsy4

[Greenheadless]

Corpus gonna Corpus. Not surprising.

[hopedale]

Do you need folks that are from that area to sign, or does any Texas resident help?

I ask because I don't want to sign and mess up the count if its only folks from that ares. Also, I'll ping some friends of mine that live in Corpus. But I'd be glad to sign it if my signature would help.

[Landrover]

Done!!! Must be political pandering again. Rural health and historically underserved communities are a HUGE discussion in PA and Med Schools nationally. The more residents with opportunities to train is KEY and the bottom line.

[hillcountryhunter]

Do you need folks that are from that area to sign, or does any Texas resident help?

I ask because I don't want to sign and mess up the count if its only folks from that ares. Also, I'll ping some friends of mine that live in Corpus. But I'd be glad to sign it if my signature would help.

Any signature is fine. We are just trying to emphasize the support for the program whether it is city, state or even nation wide. Thank you!

[hillcountryhunter]

Done!!! Must be political pandering again. Rural health and historically underserved communities are a HUGE discussion in PA and Med Schools nationally. The more residents with opportunities to train is KEY and the bottom line.

Frankly it stems from several top positions within Christus Spohn taking action on their own personal issues and vendettas they have while trying to disguise their decisions (poorly disguise I might add) as financially driven. Below is a good summary of the issues from the petition linked above.

”As someone who has had conversations with many of the stakeholders and insiders in this institution, I know that this decision was not made for the good of the community, the hospital, or the physicians at Shoreline. It was made unilaterally by a few administrators, namely the CEO Dom Dominguez, CMO Orel Everett, and chief of the medical staff Yvonne Hinojosa, all closely tied to family medicine. Having spent many years in this institution, I am familiar with the chronic, decades long hard feelings between the Family medicine leadership and the Emergency Medicine residency. There is always a barely veiled hostility and in my heart I know that this decision is seated in jealousy and an inferiority complex. These people have gradually made their way into power and now are taking obvious smirking pleasure in their ability to destroy something that they resent.

The emergency medicine residency program in Corpus Christi is of exceptional quality and value both in relation to healthcare in the region as well as emergency medicine nationally. The skill, knowledge, and professional integrity of the residents, alumni and faculty are far above the usual in this region and overall are exceptional. They are the shining stars of the medical community in Corpus Christi. The closure of this program would be an incredible loss for the coastal bend community because this group of people and all of the future physicians they could train provide an invaluable medical safety network for a vastly medically underserved population.

This decision was made without the input from, or even knowledge by the important stakeholders who would have knowledge of the longterm and immediate effects. Neither the chair of Emergency Medicine, the medical director for he emergency department, the medical director for the medical ICU, the director of surgical services who runs the Trauma program, nor the chief medical officer for Shoreline hospital knew about this before it was announced. In short, none of the people who would have the insight to make an informed, educated decision were involved or even knew about this decision before it was finalized.

This decision will clearly cost the hospital millions of dollars in staffing costs in the coming years. It will set the level of Emergency Medicine care and trauma care in the Coastal bend back 20 years. Many people in the underserved coastal bend community will suffer or die needlessly in the coming years without the safety net that this Emergency Medicine training program provides. This is an ultimate abuse of power for a simple personal vendetta that will immeasurably hurt the community that these administrators are supposed to be serving.“