Not going to take the space to repost them, but there are three interesting letters to the editor in Sunday's R&B...
http://www.registerbee.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=DRB%2FMGArticle%2FDRB_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1173351081041&path=%21news%21editor
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Mr. Harville's optimism about the men involved with Danville Regional Foundation is premature. They did not "step forward" and volunteer to pay the fee for the consultant who is working with the Citizen's Commission. It was only after Mayor Williams approached the Foundation and strongly recommended that funds from the sale of the hospital be used to pay the consultant did the Foundation "step forward". The consultant's fee of $25,000 is really a "drop in the bucket" when you consider how much interest is earned from the 200 million on a daily basis. Mayor Williams may be a hometown boy but he is certainly no pushover and that goes as well for the individuals he chose to sit on the Citizen's Commission. They are well aware of the problems at the hospital since it was sold to LifePoint. They are taking the time to make sure everything is done correctly as they prepare for the public forums, etc. and work toward a resolution of the LifePoint matter.
Two Points:
1) I'll take being premature any day over the two-year horror we've lived through because no one in authority was thinking ahead. We should be thankful that anyone is thinking ahead--whether they get it all right or not.
2) To SE: Like it or not, you have become the only true record of this whole tragic event in our lives. I urge you to post the letters as a matter of record. Even the Mayor's Commission has pulled its comments. Come on, SE, it's up to you to keep the record on this one. That said, my rfamily and I deeply thank you for what you have done so far.
My entire neighborhood thanks you!!
I am horrified to read the letters from the the individuals involved in the letters to the newspaper.
Although I know mistakes are made in hospitals daily, it is horrifying to know that a patient can leave a monitored bed and be missing for hours without staff responding to alarms appropriately.
If the hospital does not diligently deal with problems reported from that unit there will certainly be deaths as a result.
Did the family request a transfer to Duke or was it at the hospital's suggestion?
And, of course Dr. Moore can make a response to the inquiry without violating HIPPA, we all know that!!
New administration, new management in every department, proper training for staff, support from from the community and mass exodus from lpnt is what we need to start fresh!!
Get this, the manager of that unit where the patient left, is acting like "no big deal".
I am a RN who left DRMC to join the Moses Cone system. I have been pleasantly surprised with the skill and dedication I've witnessed thus far.
Do they have their issues, yes. But they are minimal compared to what I experienced as a nurse at DRMC.
Within in the past 15 days, I have personally taken care of 3 patients from Danville. When questioned as to why they chose MC over Danville , all responded they were concerned about the care they may or may not receive following surgery. The treatments they required could have easily been handled in Danville.
Although I understand their concern, it deeply saddened me to hear them voice their fear about staying in their town for care.
I currently live in Danville and may at some point need to be cared for at DRMC and unfortunately I too am concerned.
So please, if anyone in the community can say or do anything to protect DRMC, please speak out and do so.
BTW, the commute is nothing, the compensation is well above DRMC and the respect for what I do is astounding!!
yes I have checked out the local hospital pay scales and the "starting new grad" rates are considerably higher than DRMC even higher than mine and I'm on 5years +/- now.(with a BSN)Hospitals are showering perks and benefits on RN's and other staff and I along with others will probably be moving fairly soon.
As far as training to respond to alarms appropriately: that particular staff is very well trained BUT... it's almost impossible to maintain order when you're staffed so short. The magnet status level staffing and current push for adequate staffing levels is 4 to one on that particular type of floor they were at about twice that at the time!
Also I agree that all of the other facilities that I have visited have at least some form of shared governance for the RN's
and do appreciate the experience and/or education of the staff. DRMC and particularly Lifepoint DOES NOT.
All I need to know is that Dr. Moore's idiotic statement proves that he has no defense. Nothing has ever stopped the CEO of the moment from commenting on any- and everything! If the chief doc has bought into Lifepoint's horrible way of dealing with the public, can there be any hope???? Of course not!
Those letters are the most disgusting reports yet on Lifepoint in Danville. I thought they said things would get better.
Perhaps the Citizens Commission needs to hold a private forum for the hospital staff. The physicians are able to submit incident reports when they encounter problems. Not that anything gets done but at least they are on record with their complaints. Many physicians now have admitting privileges at the hospitals in South Boston and Reidsville (Annie Penn is part of the Moses Cone system). Some are performing their outpatient procedures at these hospitals while other physicians have outfitted their offices so they can do procedures there rather than at DRMC. Obviously the physicians do not feel the situation with LifePoint is going to improve any time soon or if at all. Fortunately the physicians cannot be controlled by LifePoint.
Get this, the manager of that unit where the patient left, is acting like "no big deal". ...........
Again, though, everyone knows what a joke "that unit" is anyway.It's attitude is "all about me" instead of "all about the patient".
The Manager of "that unit" graduated from nursing school 3 years ago and only had 1 year of experience on Telemetry prior to being promoted.
She worked in Radiology for many years prior to that, and was fired. Seems like someone needs to look a little more closely at her. Is this what LPNT wants in a leader?
TO WHOMEVER CALLS IT " THAT UNIT" UNTIL YOU'VE WALKED A MILE IN THEIR SHOES YOU PROBABLY SHOULD KEEP YOUR BIG MOUTH SHUT. HAVE A NICE FREAKING DAY.
Whoever is YELLING, well, you're correct, before someone criticizes
"that unit" they should walk a mile in your shoes. "That unit" is seriously understaffed and quite frankly it's very dangerous for the patients AND the nurses.
Now as far as the others who are OBSESSED with what some MD is doing , WE DON'T CARE there is more to worry about than someone elses alleged indiscretions ,STOP IT.!!!!!!!!!!!!
Is this what LPNT wants in a leader?...
It appears LPNT does not KNOW what they want! Look at the history of the past and current leaders. What does that tell you?
my friends husband took off his monitor early in the morning and it wasn't discovered until later that evening that it was not recording. Makes you wonder
The employees don't wonder we know,
Making people techs RN's LPN's Secretaries etc. do multiple jobs leads to poor care. You cannot take care of people and feed CEO greed by mass production .
Hospital care is not a production job.Lifepoint only wants the money .
Never do you hear Lifepoint say in earnest "the patients" or "the beneficial outcome is paramount"
You only hear and see "the CEO COO or the shareholders" Half of the junk mail from them is about their board or their stock not patient care. Because Lifepoint doesn't care they're not here for this or any other community , Lifepoint is even despised in Tenn. according to some folks I know.
I feel sorry for all of you who beleive whatever is written or said. You know... there is such a thing called "the facts." You people have nothing else to do but post comments on such subjects that you know nothing about... Your lives must be so shallow that all you have to do is slam the staff and LPNT. Well alot of these problems were at DRMC before LPNT came along. There is good news for all of you who have this problem of "bashing" others... Take the phone book and turn to the Yellow Pages and find a P-S-Y-C-H-I-A-T-R-I-S-T... that is the only thing that is going to cure your problems... Oh and by the Way... Greensboro Yellow Pages have this service listed in it also... It would be refreshing to send you there...
the last posting must be from a manager
I think this blog is the most entertaing comedy I read each day.
I think that would have to be someone from senior management...those of us in middle management have a pretty good grasp of what we face each day.
"there is such a thing called "the facts." "
Funny you should mention that. Since all of this stuff is in the imagination of a couple of people in need of psychiatric help whose only hobby is posted on a blog, I wonder why Joint Commission, City Council and, oh yeah, the state's attorney general have taken an interest in the situation. Hmmm...
Judgements made without knowledge of the true facts are made with ingnorance. there are problems, inexperienced managmeent is one but instead of maligning individuals and exageratting events lok for the whole story. support the individuals who are trying everyday to improve conditions that have existed in thishospital for DECADES. Support the individuals who are fighting to bring in accountability at all levels. Why are you wasting your time with nonsense and anger?
I agree with the last post...there is so much misinformation being fed to the public and unfortunately they are feeding like sharks on the negative. How uninteresting is the happy satisfied patient...any body heard that old song Dirty Laundry latley?
GIVE IT UP!
Funny how there wasn't much negative until deathpoint.
There was plenty of negative long before LifePoint entered the scene. For some reason no one remembers that all these issues were present then. nothing is new...
SOMETHING is new, decreased patient census, increased pt load ,outlying EMS going to other more distant MAGNET facilities, MD's leaving ,loss of heart affiliation, LOSS OF ACCREDITATION, oh there's plenty new.
Yes there is plenty new but it was years in the making...many of us saw it 5-10 years ago. Lifepoint made some poor decisions yes but the fact that there was not a stable foundation to begin with led to much of the issue now.
dissect the financial records and do the research, you will find that it was stable .No corporation would simply buy a hospital because someone painted a pretty picture,they have accountants to dissect that,coupled with profits in a depressed region, proves it was stable.
The only instability was the region itself , failed by so many "leaders" of the past. Strangely enough many of the same that sold us out for their own perceived gain. Do the research on non-profit to profit changes in status ,historically It never works.The whole of Canada( and other countries Switzerland for example)would not switch over to profit due to the failings of the US non-profit to profit fiascos.
Financial stability is not always the issue. There were quality of care instabilities and inadequacies for years. Please don't ingnore the fact that negligence existed prior to LifePoint coming to town.
Financial stability is an issue .
City Governments can and will, as they legally must, aid a non-profit to provide service for it's citizenry.With a for profit hospital it can wither and die and the City doesn't have to do a thing until then and then it's only to provide health care availability for it's citizens. They do not bail out for profits.It is a losing proposition .
Negligence will always exist,as does greed and apathy.
But now due to 5 people's greed and the apathy of a temp AG at the time we have a negligent money vaccum for a few select people to live lavishly off of at our expense. Many of the occurances that are happening now were fixed by those who did their jobs well.(Granted things like streamlining the layout of the hospital the old J floors over to the A tower is a money saver but that was already in the works. that part of the building should probably be removed to save even more.)
Now there aren't enough staff to do any jobs even 1/2 as well.Systems that are archaic processes that take forever that were taking 2 minutes now take 2 hours and 20 sheets of paper which is more expense.There is so much more to say and do but it's all on it's way to TN and AZ now. we wont see the benefit.
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