Hospital Systems Beginning To Collapse

Sailor said:
Read a good article stating that ICU bed capacity is up quite a bit because people with other illnesses are finally being allowed back into hospitals.
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Hospitals like to keep the beds full. I don’t know what the number is but administrators shoot for a certain percentage of ICU beds because if it drops below a certain level they are losing money. Average hourly wage for critical care people is pretty steep. Makes it easy to see why they like them full or close to it.

But we’ve heard this tune before.
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
Totally preventable and totally the result of stupidity.
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You forgot 'predictable'. It happened last year at the same exact time, in the same exact states. They probably yearn for the days when dead bodies were stacked in refrigerated trucks in the parking lot.
 
archives said:
Forget it, "popeye" is going to return and push the same lame propaganda he heard on Fox that most deaths contributed to Covid aren't from Covid but other aliments for example pneumonia

Like saying people don't die from traffic accidents but rather such as head injuries occurring during a traffic accident
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They don't die from cancer either. They die from heart failure.
 
Sailor said:
Read a good article stating that ICU bed capacity is up quite a bit because people with other illnesses are finally being allowed back into hospitals.
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The ICU beds in my GF's hospital are full because of overflow from the Covid patients on other floors.
 
Althea said:
The ICU beds in my GF's hospital are full because of overflow from the Covid patients on other floors.
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So, they aren’t actually critical and the hospital is making bank lol. Maybe your GF will get a raise. Or not, if her hospital is anything like mine was.
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
I've worked in the ICU. Even smaller hospitals have divisions according to patient condition; large ones have NICUs, the N-ICU, neuro, heart, trauma, etc. All ICUs contain separate rooms that open to a central station. They are not the same as typical private patient rooms.
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And some are double occupancy. They'll stack Covid patients together.
 
Darth Omar said:
Hospitals like to keep the beds full. I don’t know what the number is but administrators shoot for a certain percentage of ICU beds because if it drops below a certain level they are losing money. Average hourly wage for critical care people is pretty steep. Makes it easy to see why they like them full or close to it.

But we’ve heard this tune before.
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For once you left your delusions at the door. Hospitals like to admit patients. The issues in Fla./Texas are not that. They are overflowing with Covid patients.

Granted, a number of them are getting no benefit from being hospitalized. But you don't bring in nurses/doctors from other states if you aren't inundated. That costs big money. Texas doesn't seem to care.
 
Darth Omar said:
So, they aren’t actually critical and the hospital is making bank lol. Maybe your GF will get a raise. Or not, if her hospital is anything like mine was.
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The hospital has been dead for weeks. There are Covid cases starting to return, but the other day an entire family demanded to be admitted together. One member was seriously ill, and the others simply tested positive.

They'll be kicked once the hospital get seriously ill patients.

My GF makes very good money.
 
Althea said:
The hospital has been dead for weeks. There are Covid cases starting to return, but the other day an entire family demanded to be admitted together. One member was seriously ill, and the others simply tested positive.

They'll be kicked once the hospital get seriously ill patients.

My GF makes very good money.
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If she gets good money out of hospital she earns it lol.
 
Darth Omar said:
If she gets good money out of hospital she earns it lol.
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Yes, she does. This place didn't always pay the way it does now, but it's been through a lot of restructuring. And the nurses have a strong union. With more than 20 years as a nurse, the pay is pretty good at most hospitals now.
 
Hello ThatOwlWoman,

ThatOwlWoman said:
Totally preventable and totally the result of stupidity.
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I'm not sure how it's preventable. I guess if unreasonable people were to suddenly become cooperative with society, sure it's quite preventable. But that's not about to happen.

They watch Fox News regularly. How are they supposed to be objective?

It's a problem.
 
Althea said:
Yes, she does. This place didn't always pay the way it does now, but it's been through a lot of restructuring. And the nurses have a strong union. With more than 20 years as a nurse, the pay is pretty good at most hospitals now.
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The burnout is real regardless of the pay. I’m glad to be out of it.
 
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