As soon as my facility went from not-for-profit to privately owned they cut our staffing by around 15% and started aggressively increasing intakes.

Shocker, quality of care dropped.

We need public hospitals back in the United States. There are some things that only make sense being collectively owned

First do no harm...

Unless you can get moar profits that way, then do that instead.

- shareholders, not even knowing or caring that the business is a hospital

(I very much wish I could put a /s in this message, but sadly, I cannot, it seems)

In other news, water is wet. More at 11.

gee, it turns out when you prioritize profit over _____, the quality of ______ suffers! who could have guessed?

🫶🏽 you microwave.

Edit: disregard my thoughts on formulary.

This article is about the increase in surgical site and bloodstream infections. Meaning that they cut hours from the antibiotic stewardship teams. I hope this article leads to many changes in privately owned hospitals.

What I always thought was weird was formulary.

It is acceptable to give a patient a different medication than the ones they take at home, if we do not have that medication in the hospital formulary.

Technically this makes 0 difference other than the fact that it’s a different molecule, its purpose has to be the same one.

I wonder if this is one of the reasons that quality of care drops?

Once the hospital privatizes it becomes crucial for management to save money wherever they can, preventing new cutting edge medications from being used and going back to the cheaper, yet tried and true, medication.

It shouldn’t cause any difference. But I wonder.