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A huge part of the health care economy is elective procedures which have been severely impacted. This has reduced income for these procedures and hospitals are
by foxyv 6y ago
A huge part of the health care economy is elective procedures which have been severely impacted. This has reduced income for these procedures and hospitals are instead being overloaded with costly but non-lucrative emergency care. A lot of health care staff are being furloughed.
NPR did a piece on it:
https://www.npr.org/2020/05/08/852435761/as-hospitals-lose-revenue-thousands-of-health-care-workers-face-furloughs-layoff https://www.npr.org/2020/05/08/852435761/as-hospitals-lose-r...
- albroland 6y agoThank you for the link. This definitely mirrors what I had seen last year and if that didn't come across it was a failure on my part. That said, I believe a lot of those furloughed employees have since returned: https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/workforce/9-hospitals-bringing-back-furloughed-employees.html https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/workforce/9-hospitals-... It's really hard to find any hard data about rehirings, hence my wondering and wild speculations based on personal experience ;)