Posted on 05/28/2020 9:27:22 PM PDT by george76
Tracy Doherty was let go from her job as a pediatric nurse at Valley View Hospital in early May. The hospital’s CEO is projecting $30-45 million in lost income this year, which led to staff cuts.
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Her line of work usually comes with some stability, so she was surprised when she was laid off earlier this month.
“Being a nurse you kind of never expect to lose your job,” Doherty said. “I knew they were going to be cutting staff, but I didn't think it would be nursing staff.”
Valley View let go of about 100 employees, or roughly 10% of their workforce. Reduced patient volumes meant the hospital was facing substantial losses, leading to pay cuts .. and layoffs ...
“I really loved working for Valley View,” Doherty said. “I loved my position there and I know that I was needed. And for them to have to let me and so many other staff members go, it was kind of scary that it had gotten to this point.”
Brian Murphy, Valley View’s CEO, said the layoffs were a painful decision, but money was disappearing fast.
“It was very apparent that we needed to take a very hard look at where we could try to do more with less employees, to be perfectly honest,” Murphy said, “and look for opportunities to reduce our expenses.”
The financial trouble can be traced to March, when Colorado Gov. Jared Polis declared a statewide ban on elective surgeries.
“Like it or not, the reality of hospital revenue in 2020 – just like the last several decades – is that we are extraordinarily reliant on those elective procedures to generate the revenue that affords us the opportunity to fulfill the services that we are accustomed to fulfilling,” Murphy said.
(Excerpt) Read more at aspenpublicradio.org ...
The ongoing economic shutdown continues for political reasons, not medical..
The goal of this national shutdown was never about “saving lives.” It was about “flattening the curve” to avoid overwhelming our hospitals.. the taxpayer funded experts like Fauci & Ferguson in the UK, said.
Now, the corrupt politicians are moving the goal line for extra federal Medicare money and to impeach President Trump, again
Colorado Ping ( Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the list.)
Time to open the doors, dawn the smocks, get back to work....
If I’m not on it, please add me. I’ll check first, though, to save you the trouble.
I probably am on the ping list because I lived in Colorado for ten years. Loved it and still do.
I’ll FReepmail you if not.
Many non-essential procedures (as determined by corrupt politicians) are being delayed. Patients that need a new hip or knee, need to have cancer treatments, colonoscopy, mammogram, etc. are being denied..
Cancer survivors, heart attack, stroke patients.. and others may disagree with the corrupt politicians that their cancer & other treatments are non-essential..
You are on the list.
All that hype closed down medical offices as well as hospitals. The surgeons didn’t just quit doing electives, they quit doing medicine altogether, opting for telehealth.
It’s not just the nurses who lost jobs but hundreds of thousands of people that the hospitals employ that do things other than care for patients.
The hype STILL keeps these places closed. Sure, you have states reopening, but people are too afraid to let others in to have surgeries and those needing the surgeries are too afraid to go in for fear of getting covid.
Trust me when I say there’s a lot of other things inside the hospitals to be scared of getting - where’s the hype on those things (MRSA, Legionaire’s, etc.)??
Fast forward to 10 days ago, he had a heart attack. This guy is in amazing shape, works out all the time. The Vail Valley medical center gave him a blood thinner and sent him to Valley View in Glenwood in an ambulance. They put 2 stents in right away and told him most guys who come in with what he had don't make it. He was 95 and 99% blocked respectively. The Dr said it wasn't CV that gave him the heart attack. His blockage had been occurring for years.
How naive. Critical customer-facing employees are always lopped off before bloated bureaucrats who do nothing all day but file paperwork.
“CEO is projecting $30-45 million in lost income this year,”
50$ x how many 1$ Tylenols?
Boo hoo
Are elective surgeries still banned?
That was the plan.
Some medical experts fear more people are dying from untreated emergencies than from the coronavirus..
The inpatient stroke unit at Stanford University Medical Center in California usually has 12 to 15 patients, said its director, Dr. Gregory Albers. On one recent day in April, there were none at all, something that had never happened. .
Not sure about Glenwood. From the above post by luv2ski, sounds like installing stents and such are now allowed..
Hopefully, the hospital admins and doctors are ignoring Polis’ executive orders.
Back at the Cleveland Clinic, a man arrived with stroke symptoms on April 15. According to Dr. Thomas Waters, an emergency room physician, the man had waited two days to come in because he was afraid of the coronavirus. There was nothing doctors could do to prevent permanent brain damage.
Thanks!
Yes, if you want to get sick, go to the hospital.
Just ask Dr. Fautus. Losing hospital jobs and making hospitals insolvent was necessary to serve public health. Oh, wait a minute, maybe that “science” wasn’t so good . . .
“... it was kind of scary that it had gotten to this point.”
Dear Ms. Union Nurse — This is what progressives do. You almost certainly vote for them. You haven’t seen anything, yet; this was a warm-up exercise.
Universal gov’t run health care, universal basic income, gov’t run housing for everybody. It’ll work just like in any marxist country.
The inpatient stroke unit at Stanford University Medical Center in California usually has 12 to 15 patients, said its director, Dr. Gregory Albers. On one recent day in April, there were none at all, something that had never happened. .
Another miracle from the Clovid~19 panic. It has cured/eliminated strokes across America.
The same has happened with pneumonia cases, either there are none or all of them became Clovid~19 patients.
So strokes have been eliminated and pneumonia patients are being cured at home.
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