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re: How much longer can local hospitals go before major layoffs take place?
Posted on 4/15/20 at 10:28 am to CaptainJ47
Posted on 4/15/20 at 10:28 am to CaptainJ47
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because we do a better job keeping people healthy?
All we are doing is keeping people apart. We have not improved their eating habits or increaded their exercise amounts.
All we have done is postponed all elective surgeries and procedures.
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Posted on 4/15/20 at 10:30 am to MrLSU
Local hospital here in CNY furloughed 25% of the staff. The hospital claims to have lost $180k a day since March 1st.
Posted on 4/15/20 at 10:32 am to MrLSU
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How much longer
As long as it takes so that no more obsese 80+ people die of something that MAY be the corona
So, never
Posted on 4/15/20 at 10:39 am to Bench McElroy
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Oh wait a minute. We still don't have enough testing kits or PPE for healthcare personnel. Never mind.
Yeah, we definitely do. This is a lie.
Posted on 4/15/20 at 10:39 am to Bench McElroy
quote:Complete lie and tacitly false.
We still don't have enough testing kits or PPE for healthcare personnel.
Posted on 4/15/20 at 10:39 am to MrLSU
Hospitals around the country started layoffs a few weeks ago. Here in KC, I think the layoffs started with more vigor in the last week.
Posted on 4/15/20 at 10:43 am to MrLSU
they've already started
Posted on 4/15/20 at 10:48 am to notsince98
People are scared to go to hospitals because of the risk...perceived??...of exposure. I've put off hernia surgery because it it not an emergency & for the risk involved. I will have it performed in due time & people will return to seeking medical treatment, so the need for staffing will return. The Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center's radiologist dept was treating 70-80 patients a day back in Nov. when I was treating, now reduced to 40-45. Cancer has not been cured, people are just scared to enter that environment.
Posted on 4/15/20 at 10:48 am to Scruffy
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Complete lie and tacitly false.
Go on
Posted on 4/15/20 at 10:51 am to danilo
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tacitly
Thought it was misspelled.. Had to look it up. I'll drop it in conversation later at the coffee bar.
Posted on 4/15/20 at 10:57 am to Bench McElroy
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How come we can't use those laid-off local hospital workers to help conduct universal testing on all citizens? Oh wait a minute. We still don't have enough testing kits or PPE for healthcare personnel. Never mind.
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This is BS.
Posted on 4/15/20 at 11:01 am to MrLSU
If the nurses get laid off who will we watch on tik tok?
Posted on 4/15/20 at 11:01 am to Bench McElroy
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How come we can't use those laid-off local hospital workers to help conduct universal testing on all citizens? Oh wait a minute. We still don't have enough testing kits or PPE for healthcare personnel. Never mind.
All the local testing places had to cut back hours because not enough people were coming to get tested
It’s pointless to get tested if you don’t have symptoms
The antibody test is the one needed to test people not sick
Posted on 4/15/20 at 11:02 am to danilo
Testing kits have not been a problem for a few weeks.
Most hospitals, especially larger ones are either using private institutions or have made their own.
The biggest issue, which isn’t an issue anymore, was the availability of the swabs.
Also, the number of tests outside of hospitals has decreased significantly. The requests aren’t as high as they previously were.
PPE is not a significant issue anymore either, despite what Karens on Facebook or Karens on the OT (Bench McElroy) are telling you.
We have shored up supplies significantly.
Most hospitals, especially larger ones are either using private institutions or have made their own.
The biggest issue, which isn’t an issue anymore, was the availability of the swabs.
Also, the number of tests outside of hospitals has decreased significantly. The requests aren’t as high as they previously were.
PPE is not a significant issue anymore either, despite what Karens on Facebook or Karens on the OT (Bench McElroy) are telling you.
We have shored up supplies significantly.
This post was edited on 4/15/20 at 11:04 am
Posted on 4/15/20 at 11:05 am to Scruffy
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Testing kits have not been a problem for a few weeks. Most hospitals, especially larger ones are either using private institutions or have made their own. The biggest issue, which isn’t an issue anymore, was the availability of the swabs. Also, the number of tests outside of hospitals has decreased significantly. The requests aren’t as high as they previously were. PPE is not a significant issue anymore either, despite what Karens on Facebook or Karens on the OT (Bench McElroy) are telling you. We have shored up supplies significantly.
Is this also true at smaller community hospitals?
Posted on 4/15/20 at 11:06 am to Scruffy
do y'all really need all these restaurants to keep making you all food, then?
Posted on 4/15/20 at 11:08 am to MrLSU
This is going to impact the healthcare system big time. Most are OK right now because they're receiving ins/CMS reimbursements from procedures done 30-90 days ago.
In 60 days there's going to be a HUGE cash flow problem. Elective surgeries pay the bills and there haven't been any of those in a month.
In 60 days there's going to be a HUGE cash flow problem. Elective surgeries pay the bills and there haven't been any of those in a month.
Posted on 4/15/20 at 11:09 am to danilo
quote:Smaller community hospitals are not a problem for a few reasons.
Is this also true at smaller community hospitals?
1. They do not cover a large enough population to worry about being overrun or even have a significant number of CV patients.
I would go so far as to bet that a majority of them have under 10 or zero CV patients in total.
2. They do not have ICUs, or at least ones that manage very critical patients, and they transfer out their extremely sick more often than not. Therefore, their PPE needs are actually MUCH lower.
3. They are the hospitals that are shutting down, firing or furloughing staff, etc., because of decreased demand for their use.
The community hospitals were a small part of the initial worry about the hospital overruns.
They are a big part of the concerns in regards to closures and money loss.
This post was edited on 4/15/20 at 11:11 am
Posted on 4/15/20 at 11:20 am to MrLSU
They already are. Huntsville Hospital system laid off 2000 employees. Meadville Hospital (small hospital in NW PA) is laying off more than 250. I'm sure there are a lot more.
Posted on 4/15/20 at 11:20 am to MrLSU
Wait!! So people aren’t dying in the streets!???
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