They closed the unit, they didn’t short it. They just put them on other floors. Those nurses haven’t been trained or don’t give a shit. It’s policy to have a human in a room with a suicide risk. Children are priority. If they can’t get a tele sitter in there, a physical person will be.
Since that didn’t happen, it’s negligence. Someone didn’t do their job.
No not quite. For the record both my wife and I work at hospitals.
The article itself reads:
It isn’t clear what Sarah’s doctors planned for her next step in care. Her family and staff who cared for her said she had shown improvements during the last month.
A discontinuation of a sitter following protocols during a 3 month stay is quite normal, and also a give-and-take of trust. All of this is going to come down to patient charting and whether the doctors followed protocol in discontinuing sitter monitoring for an SI patient. Clearly as the article reads there were signs of improvement and at some point that child would have to be discharged.
They also noted they wanted to move the child to an patient psych facility but they were full. At its core, a hospital is not a long-term care facility. To house a child for 3 months on this is beyond the scope of what most Hospitals are capable of adequately handling as acute care facilities, and yes, she should have been transferred to a pediatric psych facility… But again, the system is backlogged.
This is a system strained to its core. What should be emphasized here is 1) The psych unit would’ve had the PHYSICAL measures to prevent her from leaving, independent of anything else. Yes, this was a cut. 2) The entire medical system is under immense stress right now. A true crisis. Staffing shortages are absolutely one key aspect of this among others.
They pay some (all?) of their C-level execs (and maybe others) tens of millions of $/yr in salaries and bonuses. What, you want that money spent on staff and patient resources? You must be a Communist! Some claimed numbers from 2019:
Providence is making enough money to give CEO Rod Hochman a 157% raise between 2015 and 2017, bumping his total compensation to more than $10 million. Top executives at Corporate Headquarters aren’t the only ones getting huge raises. Current Chief Executive at Sacred Heart Peg Curry earned more than $1.2 million in 2018 including a one-year bonus of $131,812. As Chief Nursing Officer, Susan Stacey’s total compensation increased by 35% between 2015 and 2018 including bonuses totaling $97,638. Previous Chief Executive Officer Alex Jackson’s total compensation increased by 47% between 2015 and 2017 including bonuses totaling $668, 468.
https://www.wsna.org/union/update/spokesman-story-misleading-incomplete
Naturally they fight against their workers’ unions too
It’s medical incompetence not understaffing. They could have had a remote sitter, but they didn’t do it. Sacred Heart has a crap ton of resources.
ah, i’ll take your word for it. but it seems closing a psych unit would cut staff and resources which would lead to something terrible like this.
They closed the unit, they didn’t short it. They just put them on other floors. Those nurses haven’t been trained or don’t give a shit. It’s policy to have a human in a room with a suicide risk. Children are priority. If they can’t get a tele sitter in there, a physical person will be.
Since that didn’t happen, it’s negligence. Someone didn’t do their job.
No not quite. For the record both my wife and I work at hospitals.
The article itself reads:
A discontinuation of a sitter following protocols during a 3 month stay is quite normal, and also a give-and-take of trust. All of this is going to come down to patient charting and whether the doctors followed protocol in discontinuing sitter monitoring for an SI patient. Clearly as the article reads there were signs of improvement and at some point that child would have to be discharged.
They also noted they wanted to move the child to an patient psych facility but they were full. At its core, a hospital is not a long-term care facility. To house a child for 3 months on this is beyond the scope of what most Hospitals are capable of adequately handling as acute care facilities, and yes, she should have been transferred to a pediatric psych facility… But again, the system is backlogged.
This is a system strained to its core. What should be emphasized here is 1) The psych unit would’ve had the PHYSICAL measures to prevent her from leaving, independent of anything else. Yes, this was a cut. 2) The entire medical system is under immense stress right now. A true crisis. Staffing shortages are absolutely one key aspect of this among others.
For the record, my spouse worked for THAT hospital. So, quite.
Eh big doubt, but ask them what the protocol is for discontinuation of sitter following psych eval improvement and pending discharge.
gotcha, thanks for explaining it more for me.
They pay some (all?) of their C-level execs (and maybe others) tens of millions of $/yr in salaries and bonuses. What, you want that money spent on staff and patient resources? You must be a Communist! Some claimed numbers from 2019:
Naturally they fight against their workers’ unions too
It’s not even incompetence. It’s criminal negligence.
Agreed.