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.
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.