Our non profit was bought by a Chinese investing group a few years ago, to add to the main owner's growing monopoly of hospitals. We'd heard he was cheap, cheap cheap, but didn't understand how much so until the years had passed. There was an understanding that any major changes wouldn't happen for 5 years. At first it was all great- massage therapist coming to the floor mid shift, sushi day in the cafeteria. Then we started hearing about things like "cost" and "profit." The gloves got replaced- thin and ripped when you pulled them on. The IV caths changed into this weird thing that you couldn't advance because they were long and clumsy instead of sleek and easy to use. Waves of people got pink slips. Great doctors disappeared while the crabby, awful ones stayed, and what looks like mobs of new grad doctors started filling the ranks. The worst though, probably just happened. Last year our health care option changed to HMO only. No longer could we find our own doctors, we had to stay with the local bozos. This year, pages and pages of medications are no longer covered including chemo and other cancer medications. If it costs, it's dropped. During an employee forum we were told to pick up Obama care or if nothing else, find a new job.
I'm sorry for the long post but I've worked for this place for quite some years and am sorely disappointed at the direction it's taken. I hear other such stories across the nursing network about how hospitals have come to regard their employees as little more than profit fodder. As an employee in a healthcare organization I expect much more in regard to medical coverage and am insulted to get bare bones coverage and then told to find another job if I don't like it.
My question- are other nurses getting the same treatment? Or is our owner truly that one irredeemable Scrooge who delights in watching the crippled kid suffer?
