I can assure you that most of the hospitals are full. My Daughter is Admin at a hospital (of Office Staff) Most of the problem is due to lack of workers. She and her coworkers are so overwhelmed with trying to keep the hospital staffed that they do not have time to worry about "Why" People will not work. When they take the job they call out or someone test positive for Covid and have to stay home. The emergency rooms are full of my daughter says with "people that do not speak English that have free medical" coming in for stupid things. Traveling nurses do not want to travel. She says it is a mess!
100% agree. Hospitals are full but that's because THERE"S NO STAFF and they have to close down entire floors because they can't staff them. The hospital may have 389 licensed beds but they can only (barely) staff 220 with 3 shifts so the hospital is at capacity for the staff they have. If you have lets say 2 call out on a shift that can be the difference in keeping a floor open or not meaning the unit where the call outs happened are capped at the current patient level and can't take anymore admissions.
My Daughter is sooo overworked. They have the ability to bring Doctors and Nurses from out of state and pay highly for them . The average staff, people that run the hospital do not have that ability and they are offered No big money like the Doctors and Nurses. This means that they do not have time to look at WHY!! They just want it to be able to staff their hospitals and quit working so hard! The workers are not allowed on the floors because of Covid Protocol so they really have No Idea what is going on in their Hospitals.
They typically put ads for jobs just to have them out there, they interview for them but rarely hire so they can claim they can’t find anyone. Then they forced older nurses into retirement by treating them terribly over the last ten years. They don’t want to run hospitals and will close them, offering virtual care (funny autocorrect was I said virtual and it typed burial care) pretty much the same thing. If people want to close a business they can do all sorts of things to undermine it. Boomers are the largest generation and on Medicare versus private insurance they lose money. Ten years ago it created a hospital boon that has disappeared now that this generation is elderly and sicker, it costs more to treat them.
1 million nurses quit last year. Early retirement for boomers and people left nursing permanently. Hospitals in smaller areas took longer to get to that point and some in smaller communities are not as busy as the ones in metropolitan areas. It’s been that way since before the pandemic but got progressively worse to the shitshow it is now.
Hospitals have been losing money since Medicare refuses to pay same rates and rates are going down. Whatever they get from covid pay doesn’t put a dent in costs of ICU at millions per stay. Private insurance still pays so they want surgery centers and clinics and could care less about hospitals. They don’t want the business so they aren’t focused on keeping them staffed.
I can assure you that most of the hospitals are full. My Daughter is Admin at a hospital (of Office Staff) Most of the problem is due to lack of workers. She and her coworkers are so overwhelmed with trying to keep the hospital staffed that they do not have time to worry about "Why" People will not work. When they take the job they call out or someone test positive for Covid and have to stay home. The emergency rooms are full of my daughter says with "people that do not speak English that have free medical" coming in for stupid things. Traveling nurses do not want to travel. She says it is a mess!
100% agree. Hospitals are full but that's because THERE"S NO STAFF and they have to close down entire floors because they can't staff them. The hospital may have 389 licensed beds but they can only (barely) staff 220 with 3 shifts so the hospital is at capacity for the staff they have. If you have lets say 2 call out on a shift that can be the difference in keeping a floor open or not meaning the unit where the call outs happened are capped at the current patient level and can't take anymore admissions.
My Daughter is sooo overworked. They have the ability to bring Doctors and Nurses from out of state and pay highly for them . The average staff, people that run the hospital do not have that ability and they are offered No big money like the Doctors and Nurses. This means that they do not have time to look at WHY!! They just want it to be able to staff their hospitals and quit working so hard! The workers are not allowed on the floors because of Covid Protocol so they really have No Idea what is going on in their Hospitals.
They typically put ads for jobs just to have them out there, they interview for them but rarely hire so they can claim they can’t find anyone. Then they forced older nurses into retirement by treating them terribly over the last ten years. They don’t want to run hospitals and will close them, offering virtual care (funny autocorrect was I said virtual and it typed burial care) pretty much the same thing. If people want to close a business they can do all sorts of things to undermine it. Boomers are the largest generation and on Medicare versus private insurance they lose money. Ten years ago it created a hospital boon that has disappeared now that this generation is elderly and sicker, it costs more to treat them.
1 million nurses quit last year. Early retirement for boomers and people left nursing permanently. Hospitals in smaller areas took longer to get to that point and some in smaller communities are not as busy as the ones in metropolitan areas. It’s been that way since before the pandemic but got progressively worse to the shitshow it is now.
Hospitals have been losing money since Medicare refuses to pay same rates and rates are going down. Whatever they get from covid pay doesn’t put a dent in costs of ICU at millions per stay. Private insurance still pays so they want surgery centers and clinics and could care less about hospitals. They don’t want the business so they aren’t focused on keeping them staffed.