UPMC adopts new rules as result of patient death

I have a feeling upmc is going to have to pay heavily for their mistakes. If there were any cover ups, it will come out and make it worse to fight the most probable lawsuit by this family.

Maybe that's why our overtime is GONE and they're restricting us to minimum staffing. They've been trying to save on payroll, sending people home all the time lately. No one has any PTO time left.

You don't think it's more likely that's due to the recession?

I'm sure it's due to the recession (although they are building 2 new hospitals at the same time that they're crying about money???) I was being facitious. The timing coincided with the missing patient incident...now all of a sudden we're cutting back on payroll...

The timing did not coincide. Departmental managers were required to reduce costs well before the unfortunate patient incident on Dec 4th.

Not to mention the 500 people laid off back in October.

I hardly think it would be fiscally advantageous for them to bail out of, say, the new CHP given what has been spent and how close to completion it is. I agree it seems crazy that they are planning to START building another facility out east at this time.