My sister - who lives in Jacksonville, Florida - just texted me and said that her husband met with a neurosurgeon - he needs surgery, but he can't have it due to the "overwhelming" covid "inpatients". According to my sister, he will remain on crutches / wheelchair and in constant pain! These hospitals need to be held FINANCIALLY responsible for the pain and suffering they are causing regular patients due to their LIES!!
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Hit a little sore spot, huh? The FU comment is usually used when the person doesn't have anything intelligent to say. The PCR tests are not the only thing used to diagnose COVID. There are a set of symptoms that go along with a positive test. These are the people we are seeing in the hospital, not merely the people who have minor flu symptoms who don't need to come to the hospital. The hospitalized people are the ones I am talking about. You work in healthcare? What? The janitor in a physician's clinic? Did I aggregate the data personally? No, but I know the actual numbers of 4 hospitals that report the numbers because I am over those hospitals. I am the director of case management and am on the front line. My department has RN's who work directly with families of COVID patients who deliver messages back and forth when the patients can't have visitors. My employees work trying to find placement for these patients when they are on a vent and we need to free up rooms because we have 20 patients waiting in the ED to be admitted. My employees deliver the last message a patient wants to get to their families before they die of COVID because they can't come off of the vent. My employees sit with families of a 40 year old COVID patient who has just coded 3 times in one day. My employees witness the nurses and physicians exhausting themselves taking care of these high maintenance patients day in and day out. Tell me what your personal experience is in working directly with COVID patients. We are a 170 bed hospital with 43 COVID patients in the hospital today, many of them in their 30's, 40's, and 50's, and many of them on ventilators. I am currently trying to get one of our local SNF's to partner with our hospitals to re-open their COVID unit and the hospital will supply the necessary PPE, so that we can free up some of our beds. They don't have staff because 6 of their nurses are out with COVID and their DON is in the hospital with COVID. Don't try to tell me what my experience is Mr. janitor boy.
Just to clarify - you work for " a small 175 bed hospital in Florida" or you are "over [4 of] those hospitals. I am the director of case management"
Not trying to attack you - but if you are the director of case management over four hospitals.. why did you begin by saying you work at a "small" hospital with 175 beds? Are you directing case manager over four hospitals, or do you work for (ie not over) a small hospital with 175 beds?
We have 4 hospitals that I oversee, but I am based at the 175 bed hospital. The other hospitals are 50 beds, 45 beds, 38 beds, as we are rural. We are being inundated with COVID patients for the past 2 weeks. We went from 2 COVID patients to over 40 in less than 2 weeks. These patients are very ill and take a lot of resources (staff). I will be happy if this virus ever goes away.
Which two weeks were these?
Thanks for the clarification though!
Such a classy person you are. So knowledgeable.