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Hospital CEOs Have Gotten Rich Cutting Staff and Supplies

Nurses were overworked before, but since March, many nurses have left the industry entirely, retiring early or seeking other work. While personal protective equipment supplies are more abundant now than in the spring, nurses are more burnt out than ever just as hospitals are getting ready for another wave of Covid-19 patients. The executives who typically make the decisions at the United States’s hospitals, whether for-profit or ostensibly nonprofit, are uniquely unprepared for the coming deluge, experts say. A decadeslong failure to recruit and retain health care workers like nurses, technicians, and nurse’s aides has made U.S. hospitals less able to manage the scope of a pandemic, and makes it much more likely that hospitals will break down, as they did in the spring in Wuhan, Italy, and New York City.

Fall River, New Bedford hospitals cutting back on elective procedures

NEW BEDFORD Hospitals across the state will be cutting back on elective procedures and treatments, a move that will have ripple effects on the SouthCoast. In a press conference on Dec. 7, Marylou Sudders, Secretary of Health and Human Services said that effective Dec. 11, hospitals will need to cease these procedures that impact inpatient capacity. This does not apply to the cancellation or delay of life-sustaining care or care that would adversely impact the patient s health. The directive is an effort to redeploy staff from nonessential elective procedures to support the essential and urgent inpatient medical care. Sudders said that ambulatory services and preventive care such as mammograms, colonoscopies and pediatric check-ups may continue to be available, and that the public should contact healthcare providers for clarification on upcoming appointments.

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