Hospital cutbacks...

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Are any of you employed where the hospital is in a deficit?

Do they want you to donate 2% of your wages towards the deficit?

Do they have a website for you to post ways in reducing cost at your facility?

I thought I had seen alot but boy are we in for some challenges.

Sarah

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Periodically my hospital attaches a you-can-donate-a-nominated-sum-or-contribute-regularly (it's a tax deduction!) flyer to our pay slips, but I don't think anyone takes them up on it.

I'm all for waste reduction, but it seems like admin look in all the wrong places. Seriously, using enough tape to actually secure a dressing will save money (dressing stays on!). Decreasing the amount of available linen means nurses spend half their time running around looking for linen, or getting iorderlies to pick more up from stores.

How about reminding administrative and research staff to turn off the lights when they go home? Our staff tea room looks out on to the research block on one side and the admin block on the other, and there are always lights blazing. What about having new equipment that works, so that engineering and biomedical engineering aren't always having to fix every darn thing?

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Where are you located? I have worked in Ontario and BC and never had anyone suggest I donate a portion of my salary. My response would be a resounding "NO". I donate enough time, they sure aren't cutting into my paycheque!

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Where are you located? I have worked in Ontario and BC and never had anyone suggest I donate a portion of my salary. My response would be a resounding "NO". I donate enough time, they sure aren't cutting into my paycheque!

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Northern Ontario, 8 hrs. from Toronto. I agree and I will be saying "NO" for sure. Just wondered what any others may have encountered with their facilites cutbacks.

Sarah.

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Northern Ontario, 8 hrs. from Toronto. I agree and I will be saying "NO" for sure. Just wondered what any others may have encountered with their facilites cutbacks.

Sarah.

I work in southwestern ontario..Windsor to be exact and YES we have had major cutbacks.....This city started with 4 hospitals and we now have 2 ...We were the first in the province to downsize and not duplicate services.This has all boiled down to longer OR times.Longer testing times and Major ER waiting times.Sometimes as long as 8-14 hours before a patient is even seen.....We work short all the time and half the time they refuse to replace sick calls........So guess who suffers.Your right.The patients....

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