Mercy Hospital layoffs/furloughs. Why?

[TwoForFlinching]

Also, the uninsured.

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Lol, they still get paid. Maybe not the full profit margin, but they get those subsidized funds.

 

[EKing]

Integris hospital has also laid off workers.The need to shift resources to COVID-19 treatment bays, hospitals have had to close other departments. That means postponing or canceling non-critical, elective surgeries like knee replacements and procedures like colonoscopies, which generate the bulk of revenues for hospitals. So, in many cases, hospitals are actually losing money.

That makes sense. Maybe I have been under a rock, but I seem to recall reports that hospitals were overrun with CV19 cases. Was this not enough to pay the bills with the thousands of confirmed cases and hundreds of deaths? Was this not the case at all?

 

[jfssms]

Elective surgical teams have been shut down all over this country.

 

[n423]

My St Anthony Dr is not seeing patients either,( 2 weeks ago) only phone or video conference Zoom.

 

[RickN]

That makes sense. Maybe I have been under a rock, but I seem to recall reports that hospitals were overrun with CV19 cases. Was this not enough to pay the bills with the thousands of confirmed cases and hundreds of deaths? Was this not the case at all?

Not all docs and nurses work in those areas and as elective surgeries, etc are shutdown they have no work.

 

[foghorn918]

I don’t think Oklahoma hospitals got over run with covid patients like were projected
The admitted covid patient numbers they publish came no where close to bed availability they posted they had capacity for

 

[Okie4570]

Integris hospital has also laid off workers.The need to shift resources to COVID-19 treatment bays, hospitals have had to close other departments. That means postponing or canceling non-critical, elective surgeries like knee replacements and procedures like colonoscopies, which generate the bulk of revenues for hospitals. So, in many cases, hospitals are actually losing money.

I don’t think Oklahoma hospitals got over run with covid patients like were projected
The admitted covid patient numbers they publish came no where close to bed availability they posted they had capacity for

To the best of my knowledge every hospital system in the state has lost millions, and that was as a month ago. As NYC was getting hammered, that same system of preparation came to the hospitals in Oklahoma and surrounding states................ cancel anything except ER procedures and OB, conserve and stock as much PPE as possible and wait for the overwhelming surge of covid patients that was to come. Well...........that surge never came, all procedures that made the hospitals money, were and had been suspended. Skeleton staffs remained in the pharmacy, ER, OB, housekeeping, radiology and food services for weeks. Employees were asked to take PPL or furloughed. Those employees that were at high risk and felt like they shouldn't work were allowed to take off, but many aren't being allowed back from what I'm hearing. My wife is a hospital pharmacy director, it's been devastating to the hospital systems in OK.

 

[TwoForFlinching]

What's really crazy is how "the surge of patients never came" turned into a political lynchpin instead of sigh of relief for people. It's as if four weeks of civil obedience was considered tyranny because the apocalypse never happened, thanks to that civil obedience lol...

 

[yukonjack]

Integris hospital has also laid off workers.The need to shift resources to COVID-19 treatment bays, hospitals have had to close other departments. That means postponing or canceling non-critical, elective surgeries like knee replacements and procedures like colonoscopies, which generate the bulk of revenues for hospitals. So, in many cases, hospitals are actually losing money.

Most all of the major hospitals in the OKC metro have

That makes sense. Maybe I have been under a rock, but I seem to recall reports that hospitals were overrun with CV19 cases. Was this not enough to pay the bills with the thousands of confirmed cases and hundreds of deaths? Was this not the case at all?

None of the hospitals in Oklahoma were ever overrun with Covid patients. The big surge that was predicted never materialized. They are furloughing folks because of all the cancellations of elective surgeries, etc. The few Covid patients they are getting aren't enough to financially carry the rest of the staff at the various Mercy locations.

 

[Parks 788]

Hospitals are getting hammered due to the virus. Hospital make much of their money off elective surgeries and since not hospital has been allowed to perform these for several months it has crippled them in a terrible way. Most hospitals are also much slower and much fewer covid patients that we are let to believe. The large hospital in my town, Hoag Memorial, only has about 5 covid patients currently and services 500K residence in the immediate area.