Braddock Hospital No Longer Accepts Patients. They are To Busy Exploiting Hati Even Though They Don't Give A Damn About Black People

UPMC has stopped accepting patients in Braddock Hospital in the first stage to close our only hospital. UPMC has been getting blasted by the media because of their desire to close the only hospital that the people of Braddock can use. This move is going to cause a lot of people to die but they don't care all they care about is money. Braddock Hospital lies in the poorest community in PA and most of the people do not have transportation.

I grew up going to this hospital and spent six long months as a patient when I was young. This hospital had more patients then several of the other hospitals but UPMC doesn't care about black people but they certainly are going all out for Hati. It looks like they are trying to makke themselves look better by sending help to Hati.

Its time that UPMC be taught a lesson because they are putting profits above people and since they are supposed to be a Non Profit that is not right.

I have changed my insurence from UPMC to Gateway because frankly I do not want them to get one cent for me when they put profits in front of people.

They still haven't given us an answer of where we are supposed to go.

Why We Must Save Braddock Hospital?

There is a large movement in Braddock PA trying to save a local hospital. UMPC which is a large hospital chain plans to close Braddock Hospital despite the fact that there is no where else for the people who live in this community to go to in an emergency. Most of the people in this town are poor with no form of transportation. UMPC has a million hospitals but they want to close this one down telling the residents that they can go to McKeeport which is about 20 minutes away by car. How do they think we can get there take two buses?
We are a struggling community one that was devastated by the loss of the steel industry and never recovered. We have recently been named one of the poorest communities and one of the worst neighborhoods in the USA. One paper even referred to our town as "Hell".
We are contacting our representitaves and our two Senators to see if they can help us.
This hospital must not be closed we depend on this hospital if we are sick.
You can read more about the effort to save our hospital http://www.examiner.com/x-7002-Pittsburgh-History-Examiner~y2009m11d19-Save-Our-Community-Hospitals-holds-rally-in-Braddock-Pennsylvanai
We must stop this greedy non profit from closing our community hospital. UMPC wants to kick us when we are down but I will say this that Braddock people are tough we have been through a lot and we survived. Its time to show UMPC that they cannot just roll over and expect us to die.

Braddock Goes Internation Go Mayor John

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8190939.stm

Mayor John that is what we call the Mayor of Braddock. He came to Braddock in 2001 after getting his Master's degree from Harvard. He came to run an Youth Program and I guess he fell in love even if Braddock had seen better days.

He has a geniune love for the people he serves he dresses like the people who live in the town and wears our zip code on one of his arms. On the other arm he has the dates of everyone who was murdered since he was elected. One of those names belong to my cousin she was 18 months old.

I know they called us a broken down neighborhood but to me its just home. I was raised here and I couldn't picture living anywhere else.

Living Life in 15104

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/01/us/01braddock.html?_r=2&pagewanted=1

This is a good article written by the Ny Times in February of 09. Yes the zip code of 15104 that include Braddock, North Braddock, and Rankin are full of abondoned buildings and is considered by many to be one of the worst towns in America.

I see it different because I live here and grew up here. To me it is my hood. We do not have grocery stores here or very little stores it is a town that has two butcher shops and a family dollar as well as a steel mill and a hospital. The people who work at the steel mill do not live in Braddock like they did years ago.,

Braddock was also the place that Andrew Carnegie started US Steel in the Edger Thompson plant which is still open and operating. We also are the home of the first Carnegie Liberary in the world which is the top pic above.

This is a place where people try to expolit, however, the residents are not going to let that happen because we have a real pride in our broken down community because this is our home. I guess that a lot of places are nicer to look at but is it nicer to live there then here I don't think so.

I am proud of 15104 all three of the communities that make up that zipcode. I know this that if someone in our community is in trouble the people often gather around the family in trouble. I know that sometimes we pull our resouces together so everyone benefits. I know there was a whole lot of times that I had bread but no butter and my neighbor had butter but no bread but when I shared my bread and she shared her butter we all ate.

I know that this area and its people inspired a rich man with a Masters degree in business to not only move here but become mayor and really help out fiancially. He invested his own money and built the people of Braddock a well needed Youth Center. He didn't depend on the government but invested his own money. Mayor John which is what everyone in 15104 calls him has 15104 tattored on one of his arms and he has the names of people who died while he was in office unfortunity that list has grown. He didn't have to put our zip code on his arm he is not from here but he did. He moved here in 2001 and is a gentle giant at 6 foot 8 and 365 lbs Mayor John is a gentle giant. He thinks we are good people and we are.

We have a pride in our community and although our streets are tough I thank all my homies and all my enemies who made me tough enough to hang on the corners. I thank all my people for the love and support that they showed me over the years.

I love 15104 and we may never be the rich town we once were but we are one hell of a community.

Thanks to Mayor John Fetterman for all the love and support he has shown to our community. Thnks to everyone who lives in a place where very little hope exists yet we find a way to laugh and joke around with each other.