Aren't we still in a pandemic?
Joseph Impicciche, president and chief executive officer of the St. Louis-based health system, informed its nearly 160,000 employees that it will protect their pay and not lay off employees during the pandemic. The protection includes employees who cannot work because they have been diagnosed or are suspected of having COVID-19.
“Ascension is committed to protect the pay of associates during this time of disruption from COVID-19, including a commitment to no layoffs and a variety of pay protection programs, and will continue doing so as long as possible,” Impicciche said.
Can we do something to hold ascension liable for their immoral unethical choices? They continue to find ways to hide how cost saving initiatives negatively impact patient care. Don't believe me, find out for yourself. Search your email while you can for any incident in the past that was labelled as impacting patient care, then go to service now and try to locate it. Friday while I was training TechM to do my job, I was unable to find any incidents whatsoever. Usually, it's just a few that were deleted, but not I think my access was deleted. Which is making it impossible to do my job which has completely changed by the way as now we are just trainers. But we do business as usual so I will be dropping my kids off at their dads in the morning so I can work on an urgent regulatory ticket because shadow training begins Monday morning. Can't wait for this trauma to end. If any attorneys have advice, please comment and I will send you my personal email. Too afraid to share it here and face Ascensions wrath.