Kenneth Michelson
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“Small, community emergency departments were having to call 10, 15, 20 different hospitals to try to find a hospital that would accept a patient,”
Kenneth Michelson · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-27
Michelson described how in 2022 small community emergency departments had to call many hospitals to find one that would accept a pediatric patient.
“That's probably going to happen again.”
Kenneth Michelson · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-27
Michelson warned that the crisis of community hospitals struggling to find placement for sick children is likely to recur.
“This is people's lives, children's lives. So I think it's more of a national necessity.”
Kenneth Michelson · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-27
Michelson said pediatric critical care involves children's lives and should be viewed as a national necessity.
“There's a case to be made that we don't need this capacity, but this can't be viewed as a typical good that we get from, like, a grocery store,”
Kenneth Michelson · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-27
Michelson argued that pediatric critical care capacity should be treated as a national necessity rather than a typical market good.