HCA to sell all hospitals in WV

[barefootlady]

Does this affect any members here?

If so, have you been given any clues on how this may affect your jobs?

Were you, as staff, given any clues a sale was in the picture?

Do you think CAMC will buy St. Francis in Charleston?

Do you think a Huntington facility will buy Putnum General?

What about St. Joseph's in Parkersburg, is a merger possible with Camden-Clark?

Why do you think some of the physicians in these areas stopped admitting patients to these facilities? Was it nursing care or the lack thereof, or do you think administration was unresponsive to the needs of certain physicians?

What about the new cancer center proposed to open at St. Francis?

[Sleepy 7]

STAY AWAY FROM LIFEPOINT

They bought our succesful non- profit Duke affiliate and they are quickly destroying it with cuts in supplies , workers, services , RN's, CNA's, RRT's,

CRNA's, Unit secretaries,etc.. The pt per RN ratio is going up in the CVICU.

The floor nurses are sometimes 12-1 even the surgical floors.

GET AWAY FROM THEM, THEY arenot About the pt's or the employees:madface:THIS is a money seeking corporation not a health

care community minded org in my opinion/ experience.

[barefootlady, ADN, RN]

Sorry, but I thought that was just the way HCA does business. Staff nurses

here are treated like trash by HCA, managers too, but I have always noted that most of the managers are willing to do anything to keep the job. I am dumbfounded that more nurses here just keep on taking so much crap. I never realized how much until I was away for awhile. :confused:

[Sleepy 7]

Lifepoint is a spinoff of HCA.

Specifically, They are "buying" alot of the hospitals that HCA has already put into bankruptcy.

Stupid is as stupid does.

[burn out]

Lifepoint takes over sometime this month--it is really scarry. Doctors are upset, nerves are on edge. When and where will the axe fall?