Does anyone know....is the Healthcare Leadership Council going to offer a public record of its meetings and a method by which the members of the council can be contacted by the public?
From WAKG's website:
(DANVILLE) -- The Healthcare Leadership Council held its second meeting this week. That's the group appointed to work with LifePoint to identify and address any health care issues that arise at Danville Regional Medical Center. Chairman Don Nodtvedt says the council was especially pleased to receive the report from the Joint Commission, accrediting the hospital facility as well as its home health care program. He says they see it as "tangible and independent validation" from an outside source of the worth of DRMC in the community. Nodtvedt says the primary goal of the council is to work with the hospital to regain the community's trust in the facility."
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"The hospital should be working with the community to regain trust". Lfpt's attitude has always been that the community will get over it(the sale), what else can they do(filthy five)? Well, the community can work FREE to change perceptions and that is what you have them doing on this committee....smoke and mirrors.....seen it before.
yes I agree .I think we should focus on the signatures and the forcible eviction of lifepoint by imminent domain.
Then investigate the five for any possible way to prosecute them.Fraud , reckless misuse of a public asset, whatever. Then either sell or affiliate with Duke , MHC, UVA, or other, turn the Nursing school into a 4 year program and roll on.
OK genius...first of all, its spelled Eminent Domain. Can't you at least get one thing right in your post? Your post simply shows the bourgeois from whence you come. Pitiful.
Sorry Webster glad to know you are perfect. Also, "..." is not acceptable, in English, as part of a cohesive sentence structure.
But, since you are the leading authority on ,well, apparently everything, how about a legitimate solution.
There is at least one idea on the table in this post.
And by the way you have no idea where I come from.
With that, I can promise you that I have more insight into the destruction of the state of healthcare in this area than your self-righteous, pompous, simple, mind .
Back to topic-solution discussion.
People, please be concerned regarding the state of Danville's only hospital - not to have hostile words back and forth. There seems to be rivalry between certain individuals who wish to express there thoughts anonymously on this blog instead of addressing the actual serious issues at hand -Danville Regional Medical Center! The hospital continues downstream, and harsh words between "bloggers" does not help the real problem (And, we do have a real problem. God help Danville and its lack of appropriate healthcare! Thanks LifePoint, as well as the FIVE decision makers!!)
Actually...
That's called an ellipsis.
"An ellipsis is sometimes used to indicate a pause in speech, an unfinished thought or, at the end of a sentence, a trailing off into silence (aposiopesis)."
Figured we might as well all learn a little something in the struggle between the bourgeois and the aristocracy in today's posts.
Now, don't you all feel like you've stayed at a Holiday Inn Express?
Back to our regularly scheduled show...
;-)
This has gotten pretty entertaining. Love the grammar lesson this week. I was never a big fan of the ellipsis...until now.
Who cares about any of this, its over and done with!
Not by a long shot.
Not by a long shot...oh little that ye know.
Know this, Orthopedics is out ,
Neuro is down to One and the New saviour CNO says she can't find anyone to hire, not even travelers .
We know that the travel companies are telling RN's to avoid DRMC and lifepoint.
We know that surgeries are down to very few and there is talk,in administration of closing beds in ICU and some floors, this has been a plan of lifepoint all along.
The situation in Danville is dire and the only solution is the removal of lifepoint and the return to nonprofit status,only then can DRMC begin the LONG rebuilding process and hope to re-establish a viable association with a non-profit teaching facility.
There is more but since you know it all ........
Oh yes, there is more to come!!
it is obvious that they can't find staff. Look what they promote into management positions that should be filled by qualified (both in education and management experience). They just keep pulling from the stagnant pool. They keep returning to those who were driven out before or well known to be useless. They keep those around who can work as puppets. Change can not grow from this environment.
I 100% agree to the last poster's assessment!
Since when did any Danvillian desire change?
There are many in Danville who desire change. Change that is thoughtful, engaged and provided through guidance and leadership. Some have lived here all their lives, others have relocated here. The problem with the hospital is that change did not occur in an organized manner. It was more reactionary in nature. Those from Tennessee arrived and felt they knew the answers and drove many away who actually could have been of use to them and lend to success. Not everyone from Danville is an idiot..although there are many. Sadly the brain drain from this organization will not heal easily. Those with the knowledge would be reluctant to come to this organization right now. Look at the physicians leaving. This does not just effect the hospital but the entire town. Houses sit stagnant with "for sale" signs in front, healthcare dollars leave this town to be spent in other locals. Tax money form these practitioners and their business goes elsewhere. The domino effect is expansive. Economically this may cause us to reach a point of no return. Why would anyone want to relocate to build a life in a dying community?
This was not just created by LifePoint's poor choices although these choices have caused an exponential change. I am not sure if it can be stopped. Sadly, I am watching freinds and growing families leave and I know it is for their best. Many of my friends who have left for other organizations speak of the ease int he transition, the qualified staff, the motivated leadership, the positive environment in which patients come first. They speak of community support for their hospital and a desire to grow and change. Here we focus on the past and have lost both faith and hope in a better time.
I now leave sadly, but have chosen a new focus that should be more positive and supportive to my craft. My house stands empty and sadly this represents this town.
"Look what they promote into management positions that should be filled by qualified (both in education and management experience). They just keep pulling from the stagnant pool."
You are a very enlightened poster. It is true..we will never change this downhill slope with the choices they have made. They have driven away some of our best talented and strongest voices so that they can continue to grow their own agenda. Sad, but a boost for many other communities.
To quote directly from the first of the Lifepoint flunkie's, "You are either for Lifepoint or against Lifepoint". "We will put you in the reassignment pool if you have been written up in your personnel file". "You should take the early retirement or go into the pool." "The pool nurses will work where we assign you to work: third shift, holidays, weekends and only on days that the staffing grid allows." "We need newer nurses with newer ideas. Ones that will be grateful to get to work." I could write a book on the number that Lifepoint worked on us. They are getting exactly what they wanted, "a nurse is a nurse, you should be able to go anywhere in this hospital and work." So the experienced older nurses either left or retired so Lifepoint could have their newer lower paid nurses and live happier ever after. However, those whom are living happily ever after are doing so at Duke, Moses Cone, Centra, Carillion, and any other place that is happy to have us.
Maybe if you're really living happily ever after elsewhere, you should go start your own blog and quit whining on this one.
Same to you, you're whining about perceived whining , someone's opinion is not whining.
I wasn't whining at all, just stating that there is a good life after Lifepoint.
Anything would be an improvement over lifepoint.
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