They misspelled the hospital name in the tweet, it's Tennova, not To Nova. Tennova Turkey Creek in Farragut killed my dad and very nearly killed my mother as well. This terrible company needs to face justice for the lives they've destroyed.
During my nursing career I worked in long term care (nursing homes mostly), and the patient to nurse ratio was appalling. There were days when I was responsible for over forty patients, which is insane. The nursing homes use the excuse that the patients were "medically stable". It's BS because even if they don't have an acute condition, they are mostly elderly with chronic conditions. There is no freaking way the nurses can adequately care for such patients in such large numbers. These places are business first (as in each patient is a cash cow), and good care is a mere afterthought. Most of the facilities I worked in were bought by businesses. They usually did a cosmetic rehab of the facilities so they looked bright and shiny, but patient to staff ratio was still terrible.
government and pharma have progressively moved patient care decisions from actual providers to the bean counters, so yea that's the result. I've taken a cardiac pt to the only level 1 provider in the area and waited in the hallway for 45 minutes while maintaining care. can't imagine how bad the waiting room got.
Assuming they didn't lie on the charting for some reason.
That said, if this is accurate (no reason to believe it isn't), there needs to be a discussion around how to provide best patient care & demand I surance companies pay for what doctors say is needed.
This BS of insurance only paying for what they think is good enough needs to stop.
Really insurance as a general rule needs to stop, though this likely stems from leaving the gold standard.
My parents told me that as a kid they could afford to pay the doctors out of pocket for almost everything when the dollar still had some value & insurance didn't exist.
I am too young for house call by MDs, though I have a great chiropractor that makes them & just learned about a local nurse that gives I treatments in home too.
Health insurance truly needs a great structuring same as government.
For years, I do not pay for health insurance because I know I could just use herbal medicines and if I need to, pay for doctors on my own. Now, dental is a different story.
Then Obama Care comes along.
Right now, $10 per paycheck just in case for some catastrophic thing that needs hospitalization. 3 times a year for office visit which I don't use.
I will go to my grave saying that during the hieght of the covid hoax (news showing hospitals over run etc crap) I drove by a few big time hospitals where I live and they were operationg as if there wasnt any pandemic at all. Nothing was out of the ordinary. Thats why all these rn's & dr's had plenty of time to coordinate those stupid dances.
They misspelled the hospital name in the tweet, it's Tennova, not To Nova. Tennova Turkey Creek in Farragut killed my dad and very nearly killed my mother as well. This terrible company needs to face justice for the lives they've destroyed.
I am sorry about your dad. Thanks for the correction!
During my nursing career I worked in long term care (nursing homes mostly), and the patient to nurse ratio was appalling. There were days when I was responsible for over forty patients, which is insane. The nursing homes use the excuse that the patients were "medically stable". It's BS because even if they don't have an acute condition, they are mostly elderly with chronic conditions. There is no freaking way the nurses can adequately care for such patients in such large numbers. These places are business first (as in each patient is a cash cow), and good care is a mere afterthought. Most of the facilities I worked in were bought by businesses. They usually did a cosmetic rehab of the facilities so they looked bright and shiny, but patient to staff ratio was still terrible.
My friends are RNs, and so I know. One works in VA, the other in hospice and another ran her own business.
Of course, the business one is great because she choose her own work. The one in VA is quite stable right now (RIGHT NOW IS THE KEY WORD)
government and pharma have progressively moved patient care decisions from actual providers to the bean counters, so yea that's the result. I've taken a cardiac pt to the only level 1 provider in the area and waited in the hallway for 45 minutes while maintaining care. can't imagine how bad the waiting room got.
JUSTICE Incoming! ⚖️
Amen.
Assuming they didn't lie on the charting for some reason.
That said, if this is accurate (no reason to believe it isn't), there needs to be a discussion around how to provide best patient care & demand I surance companies pay for what doctors say is needed.
This BS of insurance only paying for what they think is good enough needs to stop.
Really insurance as a general rule needs to stop, though this likely stems from leaving the gold standard.
My parents told me that as a kid they could afford to pay the doctors out of pocket for almost everything when the dollar still had some value & insurance didn't exist.
Remember house calls?
I am too young for house call by MDs, though I have a great chiropractor that makes them & just learned about a local nurse that gives I treatments in home too.
Health insurance truly needs a great structuring same as government.
For years, I do not pay for health insurance because I know I could just use herbal medicines and if I need to, pay for doctors on my own. Now, dental is a different story.
Then Obama Care comes along.
Right now, $10 per paycheck just in case for some catastrophic thing that needs hospitalization. 3 times a year for office visit which I don't use.
u/#coffeespit
She has to split with the attorney but should be enough.
I will go to my grave saying that during the hieght of the covid hoax (news showing hospitals over run etc crap) I drove by a few big time hospitals where I live and they were operationg as if there wasnt any pandemic at all. Nothing was out of the ordinary. Thats why all these rn's & dr's had plenty of time to coordinate those stupid dances.
I was living in Vancouver WA where there's a big hospital close by and two more about 20-30 minutes away.
Nothing was going on and it was very calm and quiet. Just like you said. I work in the hospital and many of my friends also. Nothing was going on.