Posted on 04/22/2020 2:29:55 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
Citing massive revenue losses, UW Health and UnityPoint Meriter on Tuesday announced pay cuts and other measures that will put some nurses and support staff out of work to stanch the financial bleeding from the COVID-19 outbreak.
“These are not easy changes and we had hoped to avoid them,” said UW Health CEO Alan Kaplan in a Tuesday morning email to faculty and staff. “While we were able to limit drastic reductions in the first few months of our response, the dramatic and continued deterioration of the health industry economics left us few options.”
SSM St. Mary’s, the city’s third hospital operator, is facing similar revenue losses but hasn't announced specific plans.
"To offset these losses, we are currently evaluating our expenditures to see what non-patient care related costs we can cut, delay or reduce for the sustainability of our organization," said St. Mary's spokeswoman Kim Sveum. "These steps are necessary to ensure our financial stability through the COVID-19 pandemic and into the future."
All three local hospitals reported early in the response to the pandemic that they were postponing or cancelling all elective and non-emergency surgeries and procedures to free up capacity to deal with a potential surge in patients suffering from the respiratory disease caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
While hospitals feared that a potential surge would overwhelm hospital capacity, that surge hasn’t materialized yet. But preparations for it have dramatically reduced work loads for staff in clinics not directly involved in the pandemic response.
Meanwhile, in a scenario that's playing out across the country, revenue from non-essential hospital procedures has evaporated.
Kaplan said UW Health is projecting losses of $350 to $400 million between March 15 and June 30, largely because of a 62% reduction in surgeries and patient numbers that have been cut in half.
Even with the changes, Kaplan said, UW Health expects to lose $100 million to $120 million in the fiscal year ending on June 30.
Along with pay cuts and furloughs, UW Health has put construction at its east campus on hold and will not be filling vacant positions.
No layoffs are currently expected.
Nor WILL it! Put us back to work, Governor Evers!
Obviously, we need a lot of COVID super-spreaders to help these hospitals.
Nor WILL it!”
Evers knows that but the destruction continues. The rats want complete and total destruction of the economy and Mail voting. That is all this is now.
I have friends who need medical attention who are avoiding hospitals out of the correct fear of getting even sicker.
I went in to get a booster shot and NO ONE was there other than the staff.
Entire buildings are empty.
The stupidity of mankind. We don’t warrant our existence.
Response to Evers: "you arrogant ass - you've killed us !"
The state assembly is suing Evers in state Supreme Court. Hopefully something comes of it soon enough to do some good. The assembly and the court are both strongly Republican.
Unexpected...
Ending “elective surgeries” is CRIMINAL!
It’s almost like the democrats had a checklist ready for just such an event.
I can’t decide if I think they were in it with the Chinese from the start, or if the Chinese were just useful idiots who provided the left with the opportunity they were waiting for.
Hard to argue against the proposition That this is a civil war now.
It’s no less plausible than Trump colluding with Russians.
I woke up with a plugged ear two days ago and if the damn thing doesn’t clear pretty soon I’m gonna take a drill and a quarter-inch bit to the side of my head. Sick of hearing my voice echo on my left.
I wouldn’t have gone to the doctor for it yet anyway, but I’m just sayin’. Would be nice to have the option.
Actually I guess I do have the option. The small medical clinic in town is part of the Mayo Clinic network. They’re only open on Fridays 8-5 right now. Pitiful.
But every SJW type in the medical field keeps telling us the sure is just a week a way, etc. that will overwhelm the ER and ICU. They have said that for weeks now and have been wrong every time.
Locally, I have seen a bunch of nurses on FB all day attacking anyone who disagrees with the narrative and saying “I’m a hero, I can’t stay home, you can, respect me.” I have no sympathy to people like this loosing their jobs while they advocate for economic ruin of others.
I can’t decide if I think they were in it with the Chinese from the start, or if the Chinese were just useful idiots who provided the left with the opportunity they were waiting for.
Those premises fit the facts much better than I would like!
I have a .30-06 with an expensive scope, and I’m real sneaky when I want to be. I kinda like the look of having twigs and branches stuck in my hat, too.
Not that that has anything to do with anything, I’m just sayin’.
Virtue signaling martyrs in some cases. It gets tiresome.
They have said that for weeks now and have been wrong every time.
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. - H. L. Mencken
It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. - T. S. Eliot
Death by a thousand cuts.
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