Nurse Strike at MCP/Hahnemann???

TartarSauce · Jan 1, 2004

Subject:

tell the MCP ASSOCIATION

TO ASK THE CITY OR STATE TO TAKEOVER THEIR HOSPITAL.

TRUST ME.. THE FOR-PROFIT HOSPITAL CHAINS AREN'T GOING TO takeover a hospital with $30 million debt..

a poor investment.

we went thur the same SH*T HERE ON MIAMI BEACH IN 1993!

OUR OLDEST HOSPITAL, ST FRANCIS WAS SOLD TO COLUMBIA CORP.

COLUMBIA LATER BOUGHT HCA(the frist's family kicked the CEO, richard l. scott to the curb). eventually dropping the columbia name due to medicare fraud etc. and becoming HCA.

HCA PAID CLOSE TO $946,000.00 IN FINES upon BILL FRIST, MD becoming senate majority leader.

St Francis Hospital(it went thur name changes) was sold to a developer and TURNED INTO A ZILLION DOLLAR DEVELOPMENT.

(ALMOST COMPLETED).

we were the "FRIST" .... I MEAN THE FIRST CATHOLIC HOSPITAL IN THE USA TO BE BOUGHT OUT BY A FOR-PROFIT hospital CHAIN=== COLUMBIA/ HCA.

WATCH SEN BILL FRIST.

HE WORKS FOR HIS INHERITANCE. TAKING CARE OF HCA!!!!!!!!!

MCP is BLEEDING.

BOTTOM LINE:

SHOW A WAY TO MAKE $$$ SO A BUYER WILL PURCHASE YOUR hospital!

TRAUMA / TELEMETRY/ MED SURG/ TO REHAB..

GOOD LUCK!!

-jt · Jan 1, 2004

MCP nurses - check this out. Your collaboration with a news reporter during your strike helped earn her a Golden Lamp Award from a nursing organization. Reporters cant get the right message out there to the public unless practicing RNs are not afraid to talk to them and give them the straight story, so congratulations to all of you who did exactly that. Its because of guys like you that reporters like her can write such hit-the-nail-on-the-head articles to educate the public:

December 31, 2003[/i]

Nursing group ranks best and worst media portrayals of nursing for 2003:

The Center for Nursing Advocacy has issued its list of the best and worst media portrayals of nursing during 2003. The list highlights a variety of depictions of nursing--from television to the print media, from fiction to news, and from Milwaukee to Malaysia--that the Center believes deserve recognition, for better or worse......

The Ten Best Portrayals of Nursing in the Media 2003

Golden Lamp Awards

#2 Newspaper columnist, Ronnie Polaneczky, Philadelphia Daily News, Nov.-Dec. 2003

In the closing months of 2003, this columnist mounted a seemingly relentless campaign to highlight the plight of nurses striking the Medical College of Pennsylvania over the practice of mandation (forced overtime), and in support of nurses generally. Polaneczky columns addressed the importance of nursing to the survival of patients, the extent to which the nursing "shortage" is really a shortage of nurses willing to work in current short-staffed conditions, and how nurse practitioners provide excellent, cost-effective primary care. Polaneczky's columns have shown an understanding of and regard for nursing issues that is rare in the mainstream media.

"The Center offers congratulations to those responsible for items on the 'best of' list," said Center executive director Sandy Summers, "and we encourage continued strong efforts from them....>>>

http://www.nursingadvocacy.org/press/releases/2003_awards.html#Polaneczky

TartarSauce · Jan 2, 2004

you hit the nail right on the head!!

i hope this MCP OF PHILLY CAN BE SAVED, BUT THE FOR-PROFIT AND NON-PROFIT hospitals LOOK AT THE BOTTOM LINE: can we turn this MCP around and make a profit?

if the answer is "NO" than it becomes a development or a new dorm for an area college.

THIS has happen with st francis hospital of miami beach with the good-bye kisses of HCA. ALSO, THIS HAS HAPPEN to the old osteopathic hospital in lancaster, pa. HMA sold the hospital property to stevens trade school. HMA IS building a new hospital in lititz, pa. the suburb has folks with a wide range of med. insurance. THEY PAY!

AND PLEASE NOTE THAT THE HOSPITALS FOR AND NON-PROFIT GET REIMBURSED ON PURCHASES COMING IN AND LATER SELLING OFF TO ZILLION DOLLAR DEVELOPERS or colleges.

however, ST JOE HOSPITAL OF READING, PA. DONATED THEIR HOSPITAL PROPERTY TO THE COMMUNITY FOR RE-DEVELOPMENT prior to building a new hospital out of the city.

YOU WILL NEVER SEE THE FOR-PROFIT HOSPITAL CHAINS DONATE A HOSPITAL PROERTY TO ANYONE!!!! THEY ARE FOR THE MONEY AND BY THE MONEY!

TENET MUST SELL THEIR HOSPITAL IN REDDING, CA THAT HAD MADE $262 MILLION PRE-TAX PROFIT. they were performing unnecessary cardiac surgeries and got busted by the FEDS. SELL OR LOSE THE FEDERAL SUBSIDIES AND TENET IS DOING JUST THAT.

ME THINK TENET HAD PLANS TO GET RID OF THEIR HOSPITALS THAT ARE IN THE RED AND THAT INCLUDES MCP OF PHILLY WAAAAAAAAAAY BEFORE THE NURSES'S STRIKE.

PLEASE BE AWARE THAT YOUR GOVERNOR ALLOWED TENET TO COME IN AND BUY, BUY, BUY!

AND HCA WAS ALLOWED TO COME TO FLOR-I-DUH TOO.

THOSE FOR-PROFIT BOYS.. THEY know how to make $$$$ at the expense of the taxpayers.

adios

nurse betty

Infinityrn · Jan 28, 2004

Please hear me out on this issue. What happened to the patients when nurses are on strike? This I don't understand. I appreciate those nurses, you guys called" scams" who cross the p,icket line. Whether they came for money or whatever, someone had to be there to take care of those patients. I would love to see those arogant doctors and administrators do bedside and feel our pains. I haven't cross any picket line in my life, but I think I'm going to do just that. How about that, huh? You guys should not be upset with those nurses. They are just trying to make extra money. If they are paid twice as much than the regular staff, I'm sure the hospitals won't last long either. The regular staff can temporarily work through an agency while the negitiations takes place. While we will have fun watching doctors and administrators serve bedpans. Yessssss......

Although I still think the California law that just took effect this year should be mandated by all states. Then maybe nurses like us will be lured back to full time patient care. You guys are right there is no shortage of nurses. There are only burned out nurses in hundreds of thousands.

I love nursing, but I can't handle the politics and the BS the administration plays. I'm one of those 500,000 burned out nurses that are now doing other jobs beside nursing. I work very part time for thi same reaason. I.... also wanted to have a better working atmosphere in the hospitals. Been hopping from one hospitals to the next hoping to find one that takes care of their nurses. They only do too much BS speeeches. Yet it takes so much to decipline or fire an abusive nurse because they belong to the union. That's even more BS.

One day when I get fed up, I will organize nurses to cross all picket lines. Let us bleed these leeches. Unions and hospitals alike.

-jt · Jan 28, 2004

Such a contradiction. Job hopping to find an employer that treats nurses better while also crossing RN strike lines where the staff RNs are fighting to be treated better. Its amazing that people dont see that contradiction, the futility and self-defeatist results of their actions.

In crossing the strike lines of those nurses, other nurses are telling the hospital that the issue is not important, so how does anyone expect anything to get better? There will never be a "better working atmosphere" as long as there are nurses who are willing to cross strike lines of other nurses who are fighting for the very same thing, because in doing so, those nurses crossing only help the hospital fight back & avoid making the needed improvements. As long as nurses continue to undermine each other in the fight for better working environments, they can job hop forever but shouldnt be surprised that they wont find anything better -- because they are part of what is allowing the status quo to remain.

People have suggested a national nurse walk-out in protest of working conditions all over the country, but apparently just have the employers throw a few extra dollars at some nurses to come to work and we can kiss that plan goodbye too.

And nurses job hop, wondering why they cant find "a better working atmosphere".

:rolleyes:

RNangelER · Jan 29, 2004

Very well said -jt. I couldn't have said it better myself!