How does your local hospital raise money?

I don't know.

They don't. The way I understand it, the provinces have to pay for the costs of operating hospitals, but the money (or most of it) is supposed to come from the federal government. The feds haven't been throwing much money our way lately (they blame paying down the deficit) so we have what the media likes to call a "health care crisis". I think NAFTA and the WTO might play into it somehow too...I find the topic a little boring, so I haven't been paying close attention...

Boy, that sounds pretty pathetic coming from a member of the Hospital Employees Union! Hell, I guess if that weren't the case I'd know absolutely nothing about it...

I really don't know

My local hospital. http://www.ncs.usyd.edu.au/frames/rnsh.html

Huh? Don't all hospitals in the civilized world get their money from the governments and irance companies?

Getting University students to run through the streets in Doctors and Nurses uniforms pushing a girl around in her Pyjamas on a bed on wheels. This tradition is called Rag Week. (er. They carry a bucket to collect money of course!)

My (3+) local hospitals are all NHS so they are funded by the government. They also have appeals to raise money.

We called it Pyjama something. It was banned in Sheffield.

I don't know. I know there are some charity fundraisers and donations, and I imagine the rest comes from the amount the patient (or the patient's insurance company) pays.

Do hospitals there get much money from the government?

I don't know. I don't think so.

I didn't know they did.

Not a clue (and we have 2 hospitals, one in Eugene, one in Springfield).

My local hospital has been in the news SO much recently, they keep making fudge-ups worthy of national coverage.

In Australia, the public hospitals are government funded and each patient must have a valid medicare card to receive free treatment. The private hospitals are funded mainly by medical insurance companies with a small amount payable by the patient. I've never heard of a hospital needing to run raffles to get funding.

We have a once-a-year "Teletón" where unabashedly untalented people come to sing or host while equally unabashedly depressing people watch it on television. It raises a crapload of money, which is nice, though

Clueless.......Blood drives????? I don't know.I give up.Tell me.

patients and insurance companies pay their bills?

hospitals outside of the city get no money from the government unless the patient has medicare (insurance for people on social security or welfare) hospitals inside the city getsome city money

Does that system work well?

I guess it does DR's make big bucks and so do insurance companies.

I don't work for a hospital or have firsthand knowledge of their incomes.

Are patients generally happy (as far as you're aware)? I just know I'd hate not to have the National Health Service. It's there, free, for everyone

hookers dressed as nurses?
selling newborns?
organs?
newborn's organs?

I would not go to a hospital inside the city that is kinda government run like university hospital because you wait so much longer for service there.Not that the hospital is ill equipt just slower. But the hospitals on the outskirts of the city are wonderful.