{"id":434,"date":"2016-06-27T14:24:39","date_gmt":"2016-06-27T14:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mountainhope.wpengine.com\/?p=434"},"modified":"2016-07-25T20:42:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-25T20:42:00","slug":"what-does-your-donation-buy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainhope.org\/es\/what-does-your-donation-buy\/","title":{"rendered":"What Does Your Donation Buy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mountainhope.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/AdobeStock_86291433.jpeg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-435 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainhope.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/AdobeStock_86291433-510x339.jpeg\" alt=\"Donate to Mountain Hope Good Shepherd Clini\" width=\"366\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainhope.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/AdobeStock_86291433-510x339.jpeg 510w, https:\/\/mountainhope.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/AdobeStock_86291433-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 366px) 100vw, 366px\" \/><\/a>When you make a donation to Mountain Hope Good Shepherd Clinic, your money goes a long way. In fact, it goes a lot farther than what you spend on your own health care.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what we charge our patients. Some of them can&#8217;t afford even these prices:<\/p>\n<p>Thirty dollars buys one office visit, a tooth extraction, or baseline blood work. (One of our staff members noted that her insurance billed $661 for the same blood work.)<\/p>\n<p>An echocardiogram (EKG) costs $20 at the Clinic.<\/p>\n<p>If we have them in stock, we charge $5 for common medications such as routine antibiotics.<\/p>\n<p>A dental filling is $60, and teeth cleaning $50.<\/p>\n<p>These low prices are the result of careful management. Many of our medical and dental providers are volunteers (though all are skilled and experienced).<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, the actual cost of each visit is much more than the prices we charge. Every time a patient walks in, the cost to us is $94.42, not the $30 we charge. We have to make up that $64.42 deficit through fund raising, grants &#8212; and, of course, donations.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you make a donation to Mountain Hope Good Shepherd Clinic, your money goes a long way. In fact, it goes a lot farther than what you spend on your own health care. Here&#8217;s what we charge our patients. Some of them can&#8217;t afford even these prices: Thirty dollars buys one office visit, a tooth [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":439,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fundraisers","tag-donations"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainhope.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainhope.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainhope.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainhope.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainhope.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mountainhope.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainhope.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainhope.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainhope.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainhope.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}