What Others Are Saying >> Patients and Their Families

The mission of America’s hospitals is to treat people who need help … and to serve the emergency needs of everybody, regardless of their ability to pay.

• Maria Elena Saavedra-Melesio woke up in the middle of the night with chest pains. She was rushed to her local hospital and received lifesaving treatment immediately. Unemployed and uninsured, she was concerned about how she would ever pay for her care. ...Read more.
  
• Bronwyn Dennis never imagined that a birth defect would cause her kidney and liver to fail when she was 35.  ... Read more.

• When Cora Brown went to her hospital’s emergency department in early 2003, she was afraid of how she would be treated. She had so little money … and no insurance.  ... Read more.

• Lewis Wilker tried to ignore the sores on his legs because he didn't have health insurance — not knowing more serious problems were developing.  ... Read more.