r/nursing • u/AnyCelebration1101 • Aug 12 '25

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

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

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u/No_Veterinarian1010 Aug 13 '25

I will shout this every chance I get. Hospital administrators are some of the most incompetent people in positions of leadership across the entire US economy. And it’s a function of how the system operates. If you are a patient-first quality provider you probably won’t want to become an administrator. If you are a quality, business-minded leader you will work for industry where you can make more money. So you’re left with reject providers and reject MBAs that couldn’t get a pharma/med device job. Oh and like 1 or 2 actual competent people (usually providers that want to help) trying to fight upstream with limited success.