Wife is a nurse at a very major medical facility, 4k employees on campus total, she works in the hospital and since ALL the other elective procedure departments and buildings are closed, she is being sent home early and offered PTO leave just so they can rotate in some of the employees (for her spot) who literally have nothing to do. Sister in law also at a smaller hospital a few hours away as a nurse, but her department was cardiac rehab education, and guess what - no need for that now, either. She has been cut to 2 days a week working in the kitchen.
And all this has nothing to do with whether or not they will ever need the ICU/bed space for COVID patients - it is all just a reflection of how these hospitals have stopped doing ANY elective procedures, combined with patients STAYING AWAY even for most emergency care - the ERs are relatively empty too.
So far it seems the built capacity (in my state anyway) has been WAY overbuilt, probably becuase they went by the shitty media-driven models of needed bed space. Fucking media. Now, we havent peaked yet here, either, so perhaps at peak that capacity will be needed, but it sure doesnt look that way right now.
And for this we are going to go thru a self-induced great depression?
My wife is a cardiac care nurse for a large cardiology office. Her hours have dropped to practically nothing. You'd think people would still need cardiac care even with a pandemic, but even that's been shelved for the time being.
Wife is a nurse at a very major medical facility, 4k employees on campus total, she works in the hospital and since ALL the other elective procedure departments and buildings are closed, she is being sent home early and offered PTO leave just so they can rotate in some of the employees (for her spot) who literally have nothing to do. Sister in law also at a smaller hospital a few hours away as a nurse, but her department was cardiac rehab education, and guess what - no need for that now, either. She has been cut to 2 days a week working in the kitchen.
And all this has nothing to do with whether or not they will ever need the ICU/bed space for COVID patients - it is all just a reflection of how these hospitals have stopped doing ANY elective procedures, combined with patients STAYING AWAY even for most emergency care - the ERs are relatively empty too.
So far it seems the built capacity (in my state anyway) has been WAY overbuilt, probably becuase they went by the shitty media-driven models of needed bed space. Fucking media. Now, we havent peaked yet here, either, so perhaps at peak that capacity will be needed, but it sure doesnt look that way right now.
And for this we are going to go thru a self-induced great depression?
My wife is a cardiac care nurse for a large cardiology office. Her hours have dropped to practically nothing. You'd think people would still need cardiac care even with a pandemic, but even that's been shelved for the time being.
yea, who cares about a heart attack when you could have the sniffles.