If you’re having staffing problems then you probably aren’t paying enough. Need people on call for emergencies? Pay people to be on call.
Uh, right, and you live where again? With how large of a population base distributed in what fashion? “Just pay them more and hire more people” isn’t a very well thought out response, nor does it seem particularly well informed.
Where is the moeny supposed to come from?
Multiple states already allow pink for deer hunting. Mostly worn by women from the pink camo outfits I’ve run across in the wild.
Critical access hospitals have a tendency to either be nearly empty, or almost full, so it’s hard to know from day to day.
Irrelevant. People move for work all the damn time. I’ve not once been hired out of a “population base” since I finished with school.
With all due respect, there’s a world of difference between a rural population base and an urban, exurban, suburban, or just plain more populous one. I spent 10 years living in a remote town in Montana and another 25 living in a remote town in Wyoming. (OK, ALL the towns in Wyoming are remote in that they’re widely spaced out–as in 25 miles or in some cases, 60 or 70 miles.)
Wyoming has a nursing shortage, and as the director of nursing at the local hospital told me, it’s hard to convince people to move to rural areas. When a nurse does move in, what’s his spouse going to do for work? It’s not a state with public transportation, and the weather is often brutal. Fresh air is all well and good, but it’s still over 100 miles to the nearest shopping mall. Definitely not drawing cards.
When I lived in Montana, the local hospital didn’t have dedicated ER docs. Docs took turns being on call and would drive in when an emergency came in. When we rushed my young son there in bad shape, it was nurses who kept him alive until the doc could get there. Nor was he their only emergency at the time.
People have this idea rural hospitals are sleepy little Mayberry places with an unhurried pace. Definitely not true.
Aye, this, “the Empty Quarter” Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, parts of Colorado, most of Nevada, Utah, eastern Washington and Oregon both,
Large area, low population, not much money to pay medical personnel either through fees or taxes.
Well, in Washington State, the spouse could get a job as a dealer for the nurse card games. :dubious:
Evidence indicates that Clark County is in Eastern Washington. Physicists have identified a spatial anomaly in southern Skamania County that results in the Eastern border of Clark county being wholly coincident with Asotin County.
Lewis County, that is another thing entirely. No one has been able to come up with an explanation for that.
From the website for the “Montana Vortex” (look it up yourself, I prefer not to link to tourist traps):When visitors pass through the “Portal” they can see and feel the power of the vortex and they enter a reality where some physical rules like gravity and perspective are decidedly skewed.Something similar may explain Lewis County.
Yes, that’s the point of the thread. The Federal government is paying these people to be on call, because allocating resources according to the law of supply and demand
would leave these Americans without adequate access to medical care, and this dipshit Senator wants to end that arrangement.
Again, the “population base” is irrelevant; people move. And according to the USCB, they even move to Wyoming. Yes, it’s hard to convince people to move to some areas. That’s why RNs in Alaska get paid so much.
No, the population base is the core of the problem.
Yes people move for work all the time. I’ve moved many nurses and doctors into my part of “The Empty Quarter” and I’ve moved just as many out.
Its a difficult thing for people with little or no experience living in a low population density area to grasp sometimes, there is only so much money to go around, and that money pool is shrunk quite a bit by the distances needed for travel and the uncentralized nature of this region of the US. So there are fewer amenities, they are farther away and harder to access and may or may not be as nice as what you can find in an area with a higher, more dense population, just for starters
The “fewer amenities” may include things such as the nearest school being over one hour away with no school bus. It’s not just a matter of malls and bars, it’s basic services.
All the better! There is NOTHING manly about shooting a deer from quite a great distance away with the civilian version of a sniper rifle with a scope.
All the better! There is NOTHING manly about shooting a deer from quite a great distance away with the civilian version of a sniper rifle with a scope. Might as well admit it and advertise it with hot pink clothes.
Well, I can’t speak for the other states, but in Idaho we try to avoid not having busses. For a little perspective on the whole problem though, at one point, education was between 40 and 50 percent of the entire state budget.(the exact number doesn’t come to mind at the moment)
Some developments over the last couple of days:[ul]
[li]The hospital measure (HB 1155) passed both houses of the Legislature and the Governor is expected to sign it.[/li][li]While several “dangerous amendments” were removed, one that survived delays implementation of mandatory overtime protections for nurses and hospital technicians by two years at critical access hospitals and by six months at all other hospitals.[/li][li]To no one’s surprise, Sen Maureen Walsh (R-[DEL]Dingbat[/DEL]Walla Walla) voted against the measure.[/li][li]BTW, Walsh’s defense is that she made a gaffe while “churning through piles of unfinished legislation alongside punchy colleagues in the last days of the 2019 session.” Just as well she wasn’t in a position where someone’s health depended on her, n’est-ce pas?[/li][/ul]
Speaking of sucky Washington state reps, my guy from here in Almost Idaho, Matt Shea, has put himself in the hot seat, again. He will of course be re-elected next time.