gov barbour cutting medicaid

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how is the atmosphere at your mississippi hospital right now with the gov threatening to cut medicaid and wanting to tax hospitals, ours is ******* in their pants and are talking lay-offs. hell we have a crap full of positions we need to fill but now we have a hiring freeze on and so we must work with a skelleton crew longer. i can't believe i voted for that crooked s.o.b...

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Specializes in Almost everything except ICU.

At my hospital, they have just placed all of the full-time Home Health/Hospice RN's on salary to cut out overtime.These nurses have been working 8-10 hrs of overtime just to get all of the work done, so they are not very happy. I'm still part-time so I get to keep my hourly pay. To make it even harder, we also have a hiring freeze and they are not replacing any of the nurses that leave. Main unit also talking lay-off's and not replacing positions of nurses that leave. What a mess. Yeah, I kick myself everyday for voting for him. I did vote against him this last time, but was a big supporter the first time. Also, the IHL ran out of funding, so no graduate students approved for loan/scholarship programs. Arggg

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there are so many rumors going around in the hospital I work at . You just don't know what to believe. I heard that lay off was an option but we are short already . We were also told that each deptment needed to cut thousands off their budget to avoid possisble lay offs also. I hope the guys in the senate realize there are families that are being affected by their decisions and to stop playing games with each other and get serious.

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I live in the northern part of MS (Desoto County) and so far have not heard anything about job cuts or layoffs.

What part of MS do you live in?

patann, Fanilow, and RN1980

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Specializes in Almost everything except ICU.

I live in the Union/Lee county area. We have Baptist and NMMC hospitals here. So, does Baptist DeSoto not have a hiring freeze on?? That is one of the places I would be intrested in working part time or week-ends. The masters program I am in meets at the Ole Miss campus at Southaven.

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Fanilow , I have not heard of any hiring freeze, I will ask around and report back to you.

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