Low heart beat

[brabrabra13]

My grandmother lays in hospital with 26 heart beat late..what can we do..to safe her life. Pacemaker is too expensive.
Thanks in advance

[LivingInHope]

I do hope you can work something out!  

If your grandma doesn't make it, is she ready to meet her Creator?

[brabrabra13]

Thanx LivingHope, am trying to find if anything would work out to safe grandmothers life..its difficult while am in germany and my grandmother in Africa kenia..2nd day in hospital

[brabrabra13]

Thanks caregiver..my situation is really complicated..am living in germany and my grandma is laying in a hospital bed in kenia..tears :-( All in all the information is great!

[LivingInHope]

(Meaning in regards to the Hill-Burton law)- I hope you are wrong in your blanket assertion about the hospital's financial person- that some out there in hospital land are actually caring enough about humanity to be willing to mention the Hill-Burton law to someone without the ability to pay for a pacemaker for their loved one.

[caregiver222]

In the United States, pacemakers are regularly installed in patients without the means to pay. You are being misinformed. The hospital's financial person has only the interests of the hospital. Not yours. You need to do a google search on Hill-Burton Hospitals in your area. And to inform and not ask the hospital's administrator that you desire a pacemaker under the Hill-Burton law. Do so in writing. They do not tell patient's about Hill-Burton because they are not required to and they want to insure every effort is made to secure compensation. Under Hill-Burton every United States hospital that gets federal subsidy (all of them) must provide a centain percentage of patients with free care who do not have the ability to pay. If one hospital has used it's Hill-Burton  quota for the year there is usually another nearby that has not. You have my sympathies.

[LivingInHope]

I'm sorry you are in distress.  My grandma got a pacemaker for skipped beats and lived for many years afterward.

Please get with the hospital's financial person who can tell you how to apply for financial assistance, how to work out a monthly payment plan and ask them if there are any programs that specifically provide financial assistance for pacemakers.