Beaumont Cutbacks

Not only are there cutbacks at beaumont also at Oakwood they are laying off people there...

Beaumont is having issues, yes. There is a hiring freeze, staff physicians, management including the CEOs and nurse managers have taken pay cuts. There is some new fangled way of paying OT. Oakwood is have issues too. My mom had surgery there last month and their women's health unit only had like five patients, some units have shut down and I heard there was mandatory OT going on there.

So far, Henry Ford Hospital is not having any issues.

This seems to happen every other year at Beaumont. As soon as Winter is over they are hiring again. So who know what's going on.

I dont know so much about Oakwood, they are still hiring travelers- course the company the tried to get my there was not paying crap.

Rj

Beaumont says that they are losing money from having more patients with medicare and less patients with commercial insurance. Their CEOs and physicians are taking 10% pay cuts, they issued a hiring freeze in september and they are laying off 100 non direct patient care employees and 65 direct care patient care employees.

Yes oakwood is cutting too. They said they are laying off "non-essential" positions. So far I have not heard anyone actually laid off. They cut time for NE's and also OT. There is still overtime though. They did not renew all the agency contracts. There is always mandatory OT if you work in a closed unit.....

Oakwood cut all agency use. I have a friend that does per diem agency work and they stopped using all agency.

Henry Ford however is expanding and opening a few new ICU's and a new hospital in W.Bloomfield.

Yeah I talked with a recruiter at another facility/system that has roughly 5,000 nurses and they only have 38 open positions. They are only filling absolutely needed things ie bedside nurses.

Rj

There are still agency nurses at Oakwood depending on where you work.....

Are these layoffs something that I need to be concerned about? Same thing happened when I got out of Engineering school, except I was 1 year early from when the job field became saturated.

We've been hearing there is a huge shortage of nurses, and I'm sure due to the economy things are tightening up, but if we are THAT short on nurses, how can we already be laying nurses off?

I'm trying to change careers from engineering to nursing, is this something I need to rethink? I likely wouldn't become a BSN until 2011...are we going to have a major shortage of nurses at that point?

The shortage doesn't exist. A lot of hospitals such as Beaumont have hiring freezes right now because of the current economy. Hopefully by the time you finish school, you will have no problem getting a job.

There are other hospitals hiring right now such as Henry Ford and St. Johns.

Are these layoffs something that I need to be concerned about? Same thing happened when I got out of Engineering school, except I was 1 year early from when the job field became saturated.

We've been hearing there is a huge shortage of nurses, and I'm sure due to the economy things are tightening up, but if we are THAT short on nurses, how can we already be laying nurses off?

I'm trying to change careers from engineering to nursing, is this something I need to rethink? I likely wouldn't become a BSN until 2011...are we going to have a major shortage of nurses at that point?

That shortage is relative to where you are. The issue is nurses are leaving the field and the ones that replace them are not staying. For example here the average working nurse is 46. The programs are all full. They are filling positions as fast as they come out of school Those young people find out after a year or two that its not all that it was cracked up to be, so you are losing some of them as well. The net effect is the boat is taking on water and not going anywhere.

Rj