From the Wall Street Journal Health Videos, which now has a reference on this site. This story examines what is happening to people when 
hospitals close, where do they go. In this story the hospital is closed by the company and they are building a new hospital, in another more affluent area, as they state the charity care can’t be maintained any longer and still be able to show a profit.
The new hospital is so far away for many to travel to. Ascension Health who owns the hospital last year posted profits of over 300 million.
They also just finished a new hospital 30 miles away. They stated the hospital was closed due to a need for primary care doctors and not hospitals. That too now is an issue as many physicians left the area with the absence of the hospital. Detroit is probably not the only area to have this happen. Riske management still appears to be the ruling force instead of better healthcare. BD
Catering mostly to the poor and elderly, Detroit Riverview was the only hospital open on the downtrodden eastside of the city, but shuttered its doors recently. Now the hospital's former patients search for a new hospital to call their own. This, despite the former owners of the hospital opening a new facility in affluent Novi, Mich. WSJ's Barbara Martinez reports.
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