Michigan Health Care System
Furloughs Nearly 2,500 Employees
As Coronavirus Dominates Services
Newsweek,
by
Bryan Kirk
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
4/22/2020 1:49:58 PM
Nearly 2,500 employees at one of Michigan's largest health care systems learned on Tuesday they would be furloughed, due to particularly dire financial circumstances related to the novel coronavirus outbreak. Beaumont Health, which has 38,000 employees serving eight hospitals in southeast Michigan, announced that most of the 2,475 members who were temporarily laid off filled administrative roles unrelated to the care of patients afflicted with COVID-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus strain, according to a Stamford Advocate report. The company also permanently eliminated 450 positions and initiated salary cuts to top executives. Beaumont Health CEO John Fox, who is
Reply 1 - Posted by:
bad-hair 4/22/2020 1:54:46 PM (No. 387885)
Let them take the 'Joe Biden Homeschooling Tutorial On How To Write CODE."
It's pretty obvious that the present coders are incompetent because the Virus and Weather computer models are SCREWED.
We need more coders.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Urgent Fury 4/22/2020 2:00:14 PM (No. 387892)
In these uncertain times, we are shutting down hospitals and laying off healthcare workers.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Catherine 4/22/2020 2:03:55 PM (No. 387898)
Well that's one way to insure more corona deaths.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
IowaDad 4/22/2020 2:05:46 PM (No. 387900)
Brilliant management! Healthcare managers made way for a surge of COVID patients, anticipating an increase the number of patients seen per day and an overfill the bed capacity of their hospitals. Never happened! So they are staring at vast losses due to 60% reduction in business.
They'll prepare a document requesting a huge federal bailout that will include new special programs for minorities and LGBTQI and voting rights for comatose patients.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
stablemoney 4/22/2020 2:07:57 PM (No. 387905)
The Fauci's have destroyed retail, oil, auto, hospital, schools, sports, hotels, transportation, agriculture, dentists, optometrists, hair and nail salons. Thanks Dr. Fauci. We won't have food much longer, Dr. Fauci, just in case you haven't thought about it, all of it is processed in plants, most of whom have closed so that don't die from unseen danger. Really appreciate all the help, Dr. Fauci!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Urgent Fury 4/22/2020 2:15:59 PM (No. 387910)
They've been Fauci'd.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
curious1 4/22/2020 2:30:08 PM (No. 387920)
This points out the idiocy of the patently ludicrous theory that politicians and bureaucrats have the expertise and authority to control private enterprise. That area should be off-limits-on-pain-of-death, especially since really messing things up results in the impoverishment or deaths of people in the non-public sector.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
TJ54 4/22/2020 2:38:55 PM (No. 387927)
Thanks your Fuhrer, Gov. Witless
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Safari Man 4/22/2020 2:46:14 PM (No. 387929)
On the bright side, they can enjoy some springtime gardening... no wait that’s been banned. Nevermind.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
kono 4/22/2020 3:06:40 PM (No. 387946)
When everything is about the Wuhan Flu, then nobody other than the infected get care, and nobody who cures other things is needed. In the effort to keep hospitals from being overrun, we've sentenced them to go bankrupt for lack of patients.
The CDC has prepared us for this. When alien archaeologists try to figure out what happened to the human race, they will conclude that the virus killed us off, without noticing that we really just killed ourselves in the hysterical effort to avoid being killed.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
skacmar 4/22/2020 3:20:09 PM (No. 387955)
Oops....Guess all of those gloom and doom reports of we're all going to die and hospitals will be overflowing so nobody can be in a hospital because we will need all of the hospital beds, plus a lot more, were wrong! Besides some virus hot-spots near large cities resulting in busy hospitals, most hospital remained empty. They had to actually cut hours and staff to meet required virus protocols and procedures and keep beds open for "just in case" the virus rush materialized. Never happened. These layoffs are a direct result of the Governors Executive Orders and forcing hospitals to turn away people who required services not related to Corona virus.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
formerNYer 4/22/2020 3:22:42 PM (No. 387959)
Hospitals and Healthcare providers need to set aside areas that can perform 'elective' surgery. That's where they make a majority of their money. Without it they will continue to lose money and jobs.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
thewarden 4/22/2020 4:13:35 PM (No. 388014)
I am shocked at the number of my conservative friends who work in ‘healthcare’ that have just gone completely bonkers. When they aren’t looking for attention by posting ‘I don’t get to stay home, I work in healthcare!’ memes on Facebook (uh, yes, because it’s your job?), they are posting rants about how they don’t care about all of us losing our jobs, paychecks, businesses, futures...because they are more important than us and it’s all about them. Sick of it—it’s like a mental illness, an off-shoot of TDS, but they’re conservatives! I don’t get it. So, maybe they should read this article because they’re next on the chopping block—and I find no joy in that. I’d say ‘welcome to the club’ but I don’t roll that way.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
joew9 4/22/2020 8:35:56 PM (No. 388201)
A friends mother just died because she couldn't get service at a local hospital that has virtually no CV19 cases. They were too busy preparing for CV19 and sent her home after repeated visits and even an overnight stay. The last time they sent her home she died two days later.
So now I don't know know of even a friend of a friend of a friend that has died from CV19.
But I do know someone who died because of the lock down and overreaction.
In the long run more will die from the lock down than the virus.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Trigger2 4/23/2020 4:06:48 AM (No. 388389)
The same thing is happening in NY state. He's keeping the state locked down until the middle of May at which time I suspect he'll extend it to sometime in June. Does he care about these workers? Hell no, he only cares about NYC and LI. Does he care about the NY state economy? Hell no, he's positioning himself for a federal bailout after wasting state taxpayer money on his cronies.
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Trigger2 4/23/2020 4:11:37 AM (No. 388391)
#14: Did you mother get counted as a "CV-19" death? You should look into it and maybe sue the governor for murder for hire charge.
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You're doing a great job Gretchy. Hospitals are slashing staff since they are bleeding-out due to blockage of non-Covid medical care.