Posted on 04/08/2020 1:32:32 PM PDT by Hojczyk
In a survey released 18 months ago, 86 percent of hospital administrators reported they were prepared for an infectious outbreak. They were not.
As a new flu season was approaching in fall 2018, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services inspector general issued a report telling the Trump administration there was good news on the pandemic front: Long-struggling hospitals had fortified their preparedness for an infectious disease outbreak.
Just a few short years after 71% of American hospital executives warned they were ill-prepared for a disease outbreak like the 2014 Ebola virus, 86% were reporting they were prepared and ready, the department’s inspector general declared.
The report boasted: “Hospital actions to improve preparedness included updating emergency plans, training staff to care for patients with EIDs (emerging infectious disease), purchasing additional supplies, and conducting EID-focused drills. Hospitals also used a wide range of resources provided by the Department of Health and Human Services."
“Administrators found that vendors in their communities with the proper credentials and capability often contracted with more hospitals than they could actually service if multiple hospitals were to require services at the same time,” the 2018 report flagged.
Closing such gaps will be essential to the next pandemic plan. The reason was made clear in one quote from a hospital administrator that was highlighted in the 2018 report about the culture of medicine when practiced on tight profit margins with competing demands.
“We deal with whatever is the ‘hot topic’ of the day, and nothing can stay on top of list ongoing,” the administrator declared.
(Excerpt) Read more at justthenews.com ...
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They ALL lied?!
Somebody send this to Nancy.
Someone has been trying to sell a pandemic for the last 4 or 5 years. Every year there were commercials warning of a coming pandemic.
In a survey released 18 months ago, 86 percent of hospital administrators reported they were prepared for an infectious outbreak. They were not. >>>>>>
The next survey should be interesting, leading to a public health administrator summit.
The system is full of plutocrats who are not at all capable , most of them, of protecting society against a pandemic.
Put the front line doctors in charge. That should solve the problem.
Did you follow the link to the HHS IG’s rosy preparedness report? Guess who the author is?
Wait for it....
Christi Grimm.
Bwahahaha, yep, the one that just dropped a report about the poor widdle hospitals still not having enough everything.
She is so getting fired or transferred.
Knew this was a conspiracy 4 years in the making for Hillary Clinton to go full dictatorship if she’d won it in 2016.
The deep state just needed the right chances for reichstag incident.
even a netflix series,,
I still havent completed.
I had no idea that much baggage was on top of actual “doers.”
Wow.
Of course in the hinterlands artificially caused hospital layoffs are approaching 100,000. Go figure.
“She is so getting fired or transferred.”
Of course, why do you think the report was dug up and released?
ANOTHER Inspector General issues another bullsh#t report. “Who are these guys?”
My daughter is an ICU nurse. Was talking with her last night and she confirmed to me that she has had issues getting PPE from her hospital. So those stories are not fake news.
However, she does not blame Trump. She believes that the hospital has an adequate supply and the state can provide more as Mike Pence says every day.
She blames the nitwit administrators who are still trying to manage the bottom line and max out their bonuses in the middle of a pandemic. She says they understand business but not healthcare, and it is very frustrating.
So your comment about having a front line doctor in charge is relevant.
just another insurance policy.
3 Apr: Desmoines Register: More than 12,000 Iowa health care workers laid off, furloughed by coronavirus pandemic
by Kim Norvell
Health care workers represent nearly 13% of all unemployment claims made by Iowans since the novel coronavirus began to spread in the state, according to data from the U.S. Department of Labor.
Hospitals, doctor’s offices, dentists and other specialty clinics nationwide are furloughing or laying off health care workers...
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2020/04/03/coronavirus-iowa-12-000-health-care-workers-laid-off-furloughed/2939503001/
2 Apr: Desmoines Register: Thousands of health care workers are furloughed, laid off in US as routine patient visits drop during coronavirus pandemic
by Kim Norvell Just how many health care workers are included in the record 3.28 million Americans that filed for initial unemployment benefits last week is unknown. Specific data from the U.S. Department of Labor will be released when it reports its March unemployment numbers on Friday.
and Jayne O’Donnell
Boston Medical Center announced Tuesday that it is furloughing 700 employees, about 10% of its staff, said spokeswoman Jenny Eriksen Leary in a statement...
Appalachian Regional Healthcare, one of the largest hospital systems in eastern Kentucky, furloughed 500 staff members last week amid a 30% decline in revenue...
Cape Fear Valley Health in Fayetteville, North Carolina, has furloughed 300 employees as the health system temporarily closes some services and reschedules non-essential surgeries, procedures or diagnostic testing...
Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, like many others, is requiring non-essential staff members to take paid time off, said Dr. Linda Alvarez, secretary-treasurer of the Service Employees International Union Committee on Interns and Residents...
Last week, nearly 5,000 workers in health care and social assistance applied for unemployment benefits in Iowa...
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/health/2020/04/02/health-care-workers-laid-off-patient-visits-drop-during-coronavirus-pandemic/5089438002/
anyone got a link to the “Specific data” that was to be released last Friday?
I had no idea that much baggage was on top of actual “doers.”
Yep. I would bet the same type of charts for public schools and colleges would appear much the same. Teachers at the bottom and administrators climbing sharply.
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