Nine Catholic hospitals in New Jersey must learn how to serve the poor with less money, since there has been a major reduction in state funding for Charity Care at these health care facilities.
New Jersey’s governor signed a budget that reduces Charity Care for indigent patients without health insurance by $111 million.
“Health care access for the poor and vulnerable, especially inner-city residents, will be threatened as financially distressed hospitals are further weakened” by the cuts, said Father Joseph Kukura, a Newark, N.J., archdiocesan priest who is president of the Princeton-based Catholic HealthCare Partnership of New Jersey.
More details about this issue are available in the July 16 edition of The Catholic Advocate, newspaper of the Archdiocese of Newark, N.J.
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