<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>FishBlood&RiverMud wrote:</div>
And at what capacity are they operating at? Facilities are there. Is there a staff shortage? 🤔
Why does this even matter?
I think we can agree this covid stuff didn’t end yesterday, isn’t going to end today, and isn’t going to end tomorrow.
So we’re two years into this, that means we should be two years into increasing capacity.
How’s that working.
Do we actually have less capacity than pre covid? It would seem so.
That’s unfortunate in a non covid time as they tend to operate full. An empty bed is cleaned and filled within the hour at mayo roch pre covid.
Ammo manufacturers are responding faster than medical field to increased demand. They’re ramping up.
Last year for quite some time beds were empty. Staff sent home. Despite room for electives they were stopped to make room for looming crisis. People took pay cuts and furloughs in that field.
This didn’t impress that staff any and lit the kindling.
As hospitals filled conditions for workers were poor. Throwing logs on that lit fire.
People leaving the field.
How are we growing it?
Do you really believe we need less beds in 2022?
I wouldn’t think so even if covid never existed.
When has hospital capacity shrunk? I’m thinking never.
But, it is now.
Needs resolution.
Why does this matter you ask? Because eliminating covid cases in hospitals is resolving a symptom of them problem and not the problem itself.
Capacity needs to be increased and that should be a focus.
Medical field operates like western culture big business. If next week looks slow, furlough and fire. When your overly swamped react versus plan and endure.
Most executive staff cannot see the harm they cause when knee jerk reacting to achieve this quarters plan, despite removing resources necessary to achieve next quarters plan. See it all the time.
Example, last year the company I worked for hired full time every contract employee right before shutdown. Everyone we supplied cut, fired, and furloughed. When demand spiked, they were and still are with their pants down. Whereas we were making improvements (cutting costs) with the employees that didn’t have much work to do so when we were busy we essentially added capacity without needing bodies.
What’s medical plans to increase capacity?
What are their plans to just get back to the capacity they needed prior to covid?
These are important.
So, how much is the big business medical companies pushing back on increasing capacity to hit this quarters plan? Govt could support them proactively versus retroactively like they did last year when hospitals gave staff back the money they took from them.
