UTMB Layoffs

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Specializes in Emergency Nursing.

First of all to anyone being layed off I'm sorry, that sucks! UTMB is such an important facility in the Houston area and a huge employer.

However the main point of my post is that I'm wondering what impact this may have on the nursing job market in Houston. I don't know how many RN's are among the 3800 layed off, but it seems there may be a sizable amount of nurses looking for jobs.

Any ideas how this will effect the Houston job market?

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Specializes in Critical Care, Education.

I hope we might get some of those great UTMB nurses to come North across the causeway!

Hospitals in H-town are expanding like crazy - everyone is hiring.

The biggest impact will be to indigent care for the South coast area. Other facilities will have to absorb this, and many of them are on the $ brink already.

Question? How in the world will a medical school stay in business if they don't have clinical facilities in which to train? I know the accreditation board gave them a green-light on their plan, but I am curious as to what it is. Even Baylor COM is having to enter in to a collaboration with Rice to enhance their 'university footprint' and continue to survive - and they have one of the biggest private endowments of any med school.

Whatever happens, I am sure it will result in higher taxes for yours truly - and all the other wage slaves out there.

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Specializes in Emergency Nursing.

I was also wondering what will happen with all the TDC patients that used to go to UTMB.

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Specializes in Tele, Cardiac Post Op, ER.

I heard on NPR that they were relocating all the UTMB med students to different clinical facilities in the state so they can get their experience.

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The biggest impact will be to indigent care for the South coast area. Other facilities will have to absorb this, and many of them are on the $ brink already.

From the Galveston Daily News, here's a good story about what you are describing:

http://www.galvnews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=15077feaca10d3e6

And as someone else already stated, the medical students/residents are getting shipped elsewhere for training/residencies. For example, many of the anesthesiology faculty and residents are at St. Joseph in downtown Houston as well as some UTMB surgeons.

The article only mentioned Mainland and Clear Lake Regional but they are in other area hospitals as well. It's just that those two hospitals are the closest to Galveston/UTMB and are therefore getting the brunt of UTMB's patients with nowhere else to go.

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Specializes in ICU, PACU, Cath Lab.

I know that my facitily has been getting quite a few TDC patients....I suspose we will all get our share now, until they decide if they want another dedicated facility.

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I work (as an agency traveler) at one of the units and we are shipping alot of patients to "freeworld" facilities. We just started to send some back to Hospital Galveston thou. Currently there are only 32 TDCJ beds at HG. UTMB reopened in a smaller more compact fashion on Monday 11/24/08 with a total of 200 beds.

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