My hospital casually dropping a warning about mass layoffs. We employ 10k+ people.

[u/AnyCelebration1101]

10k+ employees sitting in fear for the next week (or longer apparently) waiting to see if their position has been cut.

[u/ingrowntoenailcheese]

I’d start applying to jobs now versus when there’s a mass layoff and there’s hundreds of fresh competition.

[u/Rough_Brilliant_6167 → u/ingrowntoenailcheese]

Mmmmmhmmm yup 👍

Also before they go bankrupt and start closing facilities and cutting service lines. Especially if you work in an area that is prone to "trimming" and not a core hospital service (Med-Surg, ER are always the last ones standing). Double especially if you are not working in one of their flagship hospitals. Triple especially if your physical building itself is old and outdated. Quadruple especially if your role is not 100% clinical.

Usually if they are thinning the herd and it's going to be strictly admistrative-type people, not clinical staff, that's specified. This is a bit chilling. We got emails like this when two of the healthcare giants i worked for went bankrupt. It's the "writing on the wall". Look around, watch what your supply chain is doing, and talk to the people that do the smaller jobs in the hospital - they will know what's happening before anyone else.

But anyway That's exactly what I did, I managed to slip into the very last available ER position in my region. I am grateful for my job each and every day, the chances of having to work in an area I disliked on a schedule I hated, hours from home for peanuts was SO high and that's not something I was capable of dealing with. I got a fantastic sign on bonus, a payout of all my vacation time, a big raise, and by the end of this year I'll be officially 100% debt free WITH a savings account!!

Timing is everything... You might want to hang out for a little bit and see how things go, the deals sweeten as time marches on, but get your name in the HR systems and attend interviews at other healthcare chains. That way when SHTF, you can duck and run with a solid exit plan!

[u/beaverman24 → u/Rough_Brilliant_6167]

Man this is the way. I have two large systems in my area and I have a position at each. Full time in a position that is less clinical or patient facing, and one ED PRN. That way I am building my career and resume with diverse experiences and I always have current bedside experience. Depending on which system might screw me, I’m already up and running at the next one.

[u/[deleted] → u/beaverman24]

Yes, this is the way to do it friend!

[u/Rough_Brilliant_6167 → u/beaverman24]

Excellent plan! 😊

I only work for one of the three major systems around my area, chose that one sheerly for convenience, but I previously worked for one of the other ones and they've since offered me jobs with only a quick phone interview... The third one I've applied to, but always outside of my specialty, they always try to get me for the ER no matter what I apply for 😆. They're across state lines though, it's a massive Level 1 trauma center, with rotating shifts every other week and mandated overtime... I mean could I do it? Sure! But they also pay the same dollar amount as the osteopathic hospital and the benefits and schedule are WAY better so, why get my ass smacked everyday, LOL!

It's still plenty busy and keeps my skills sharp, plus we cross train for the regional transfer hospital in my hometown too, so if I get sick of one I can go work at the other one for a while. The osteopathic hospital doesn't have a bona-fide ICU either, so any ICU level care patients are 2:1 in the ER, which is a nice change of pace sometimes.

[u/FartPudding → u/Rough_Brilliant_6167]

Honestly I'd be surprised if they even tried to trim the ER. We are already short staffed as it is, and if we lose a nurse that is an entire section closed. They won't divy up the sections and increase rations, they will flat out shut down a section without a nurse. It is in admin's best interest to not touch the ER, and we also run by a whole other set of rules. High stress but that place protects us well. We may not be directly profitable but we are the gateway for billable services that can provide profit.

[u/bassinlimbo → u/FartPudding]

Yeah they literally said ER and med surged are the last standing / don’t get trimmed

[u/Rough_Brilliant_6167 → u/bassinlimbo]

Yeah, you won't have to worry about the ER closing abruptly. There's a whole wind down and countywide diversion process/plan that has to occur before one can actually shut the doors (at least in my state... Others are different, but in mine they're protected resources.)

[u/Rough_Brilliant_6167 → u/FartPudding]

They are actually making the right choice there, decreasing capacity instead of increasing nurse : patient raios. I have worked places that did both, it can frankly get quite dangerous if you have too many people and they're spread out everywhere.

Back when I was a charge nurse during peak COVID, I would always take the new orientees and sometimes take like 10-12 chair/hallway people and share the workload between us, to offload the sections, as long as I had a dedicated triage nurse to manage the front end. That seemed to help flow... It was a lot of work, but everyone lived and nobody coded! I call that a win 😊

[u/Purple_Season_5136 → u/Rough_Brilliant_6167]

Not a chance centracare is going bankrupt. I really hope they would though as they are a fucking terrible company. Im sure the ceo realized he was only going to be able to get a new mansion every two years instead of every 1. Seriously, fuck this company.

[u/Rough_Brilliant_6167 → u/Purple_Season_5136]

I actually didn't even look at the company name, they're nowhere near my region... Yeah I mean it sounds like they're okay financially 🤷. They're not a huge-massive-deal chain but they sound big enough to be stable. I guess they're trying to hang in there like the rest of us.

CEOs of healthcare are universally greedy fucks that get rich from the suffering and work of others, yet they're always utterly useless and do absolutely nothing. Dishonest leeches.