Posted on 04/26/2020 8:39:18 AM PDT by PilotDave
Hospitals on the Rochester campus are operating at 35 to 40 percent capacity, and surgical volume is at 25 to 30 percent of the level that was expected. About 60 percent of Mayo Clinic's business comes from elective procedures of the kind that are now on hold.
This is latest step in Mayo Clinic's financial stabilization strategy to address an anticipated $3 billion loss due to the pandemic forcing a temporary halt in all elective procedures and average medical appointments.
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Lots of marginal law schools out there. In all subjects, a school can’t be tougher than its caliber of students can handle.
And that was really my point, which you completely missed. I said I am all for making a rigorous two-year nursing program prerequisite to the profession.
But you have now lots of four-year programs at marginal schools, forcing nurses to take very watered down classes outside their major. The nursing classes are likely the only rigor they face, but they have to pay inflated prices for a BA and take a lot of mushy other classes just to enter the field now. That requires a lot of needless time, expense and often debt on the part of future nurses.
Watch this troubling report from nurse to nurse practitioner out of NYC:
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