I found this article interesting, but unfortunately, not news. I can state from firsthand observation that hospitals across the U.S. have been grossly understaffed for over two decades. It doesn’t matter whether you are a patient at Ronald Regan at UCLA, Virginia Mason, or Providence St. Peter, here in Olympia. When I was in nursing school in the 1960s, a single nurse might be assigned 4-6 rooms. Today it’s not uncommon for a nurse to be assigned 10 rooms or more, and these dedicated nurses know they are unable to give the care they were trained for and want to provide.
Though the Covid pandemic has made staffing even more difficult, with those in nursing being overworked and stressed to the max, the two main reasons for hospitals being horrifically understaffed is the lack of fair reimbursement by Medicaid, and the obscene salaries and bonuses too many hospital CEOs receive.
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