Chickenclaude
Songster
- Dec 16, 2019
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Hospitals are being run like corporations..for profit. Too many patients/per nurse. Too many hours and shifts. The average age of a nurse is 60/65. Retirement age… add the closing of small rural hospitals (consolidation)and people having to travel 50+ miles to get to a hospital. Some states DID NOT expand medicare..critically ill people are under insured or uninsured so the cost of care falls on those small rural hospitals and increases closings. This is a complex problem that did not happen overnight. God bless all those nurses and allied health personnel who hung in there treating people under harsh conditions putting their own health at risk to do it.