https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/15/business/hospital-staffing-ascension.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
A very sad article about how Ascension has become profit driven over patient care.
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I read their rebuttal and in some of their comebacks you throw the words Ascension Ventures at the glass house and watch it crumble.
Read their check books and lay bare how they have been racketeering payouts to individuals. Quite lucrative and polish I can only presume this has been going on for decades.
Review their tax filings and see that there were 50-100k+ annual pay increases to their officers and supporting management.
They used extreme outliers to misrepresent and skew staffing numbers failing to speak on failed staffing models in hospital and non-hospital departments.
Lastly, there’s no motivation to save money when being in the negative provides the facade of a company on the brink to justify and coerce donations and federal funding.
They bleed red just enough to put a cross on it and call it a catholic organization.
Happy New Year!
Those hero’s more than likely got short changed as well while execs probably received hefty bonus money. Ascension is tanking severely
The part of patients laying in their own fe--s is so accurate that happened at a hospital I was working at. They laid in it for two hours
I think Ascension has already gone... to... __________ .
GO ASCENSION!
from nytimes.com
How a Sprawling Hospital Chain Ignited Its Own Staffing Crisis
Ascension, one of the country’s largest health systems, spent years cutting jobs, leaving it flat-footed when the pandemic hit.
Both hospitals are owned by one of the country’s largest health systems, Ascension.
Ascension, which runs 139 hospitals, among the most of any chain in the United States, is emblematic of the industrywide movement to keep labor costs low.
As recently as 2019, Ascension was trumpeting its success at reducing its number of employees per occupied bed, a common industry staffing metric.
The yearslong effort — a combination of widespread layoffs and attrition — rarely attracted public attention. But it left Ascension flat-footed for Covid.
During surges in the coronavirus, Ascension repeatedly reduced its capacity by more than 500 beds nationwide because it did not have enough workers.
The head of an Ascension hospital in Baltimore last year blamed staffing shortages for the emergency room being dangerously overcrowded.
To understand how Ascension’s strategies affected patients, The Times focused on two hospitals, St. Joseph in Illinois and Genesys in Michigan, where nurses belonged to unions that tracked staffing cuts and kept detailed logs of what they said were unsafe conditions.
The Times reviewed more than 3,000 pages of those logs and interviewed 70 current and former nurses, executives and other employees at Ascension hospitals.
Nurses said that Ascension’s downsizing had stark consequences.
Nurses at Ascension hospitals filed formal complaints warning about inadequate staffing.