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Recently, one of my family members had surgery at Floyd. The nursing care was excellent as well as the physicians taking care of them. The only complaint that he or I had was being moved to three different rooms on the same nursing station during his six day stay.
Remember all of the quotes we heard from the administration about how the hospital would have all private rooms after the new addition was opened. Remember the quotes about how this exact problem would be eliminated once all private rooms were established. The Tribune and Courier both have quotes from our CEO and VP about how our bed shortage was going to be rectified with the new addition and all private rooms.
Was this wishful thinking or just plain blind ignorance? The bed situation was discussed and questioned on numerous occasions by the Board, physicians, nursing staff and the administration had plenty of opportunities to fix the problem during the planning and building phase.
How much employee time is wasted by having to move patients from room to room? Think about how many departments are affected by moving just one patient. The switchboard and registration has to be notified, dietary has to be notified, and chart numbers have to be changed as well as the patient boards on the nursing station. We feel sorry for the nurses, assistants, and ward secretaries who continually have to duplicate their work because of a problem that should have never existed.
How much more patient care could be accomplished by nursing personnel if this problem would have been fixed with better planning by our current administration? What excuses are they going to give now?
Remember all of the quotes we heard from the administration about how the hospital would have all private rooms after the new addition was opened. Remember the quotes about how this exact problem would be eliminated once all private rooms were established. The Tribune and Courier both have quotes from our CEO and VP about how our bed shortage was going to be rectified with the new addition and all private rooms.
Was this wishful thinking or just plain blind ignorance? The bed situation was discussed and questioned on numerous occasions by the Board, physicians, nursing staff and the administration had plenty of opportunities to fix the problem during the planning and building phase.
How much employee time is wasted by having to move patients from room to room? Think about how many departments are affected by moving just one patient. The switchboard and registration has to be notified, dietary has to be notified, and chart numbers have to be changed as well as the patient boards on the nursing station. We feel sorry for the nurses, assistants, and ward secretaries who continually have to duplicate their work because of a problem that should have never existed.
How much more patient care could be accomplished by nursing personnel if this problem would have been fixed with better planning by our current administration? What excuses are they going to give now?
posted by Anonymous at 6:15 AM
18 Comments:
Could this be an isolated case?? Or is this something that routinely occurs?? I've been in the hospital many, many times over the past 30 years, and I don't recall anyone being moved. However, I have observed employees outside smoking (taken care of I hope), employees just lounging (maybe they only work in bursts??), and a lot of volunteers working like crazy. In the diagnostic labs, they seem to work at a furious pace. This must be where the money is being generated.
What were the reason(s) given for so many moves, especially considering it was the same nurse's station?
He was taken to a semi-private room after surgery. They needed a bed for a female so they moved him to another semi-private room that only had 1 male in it.
This person was loud, confused and would not turn the TV off after midnight. He got up and sat in the waiting room to try and rest and then was moved to a third room where he remained. All of these rooms were on the same ward.
If all were private as had been said, the nursing staff would not have had to deal with any of these moves
I understand. Thanks.
Would it have been better to refuse to admit patients rather than compromise on private rooms?
O come on!
We have a 65 million dollar expansion and virtually no signif. increase in beds.
We were told that all would be private rooms
We were told it would take care of the frequent diversion issue
We were told we wouldn't have this exact problem that has been described
We were told it was going to help with our low patient satisfaction numbers.
Need I go on?
diogenestrainee,
Afraid that I have to agree with HB on this one.
IMO, many times you have made good and strong points but here you reaching a little too far.
If you two ever decide to meet in person, can I be the first to buy a ticket? Think of the money we could raise for, I don't know, say, the hospital foundation.
You said you don't solicit complaints...but you do. You said that you don't obtain confidential documents or information in an unethical way, but you do. You said that a doctor sent a letter to the board critical of hospital administration, but no one other than the writer, the board and the person who violated his/her confidence requirement has it.
Shouldn't you be reading medical journals or something that would actually benefit your patients?
Improving the hospital by transitioning to a new administration will help my patients tremendously.
It will help the staff with morale and hopefully protect jobs.
It will help everyone in Floyd and surrounding counties that utilize the hospital.
I hope it is just not too late.
I hope you aren't holding your breath waiting for that to happen. The only place it is even a consideration is in Eichenberger-Land; a universe that is parallel to the one the rest of us live in.
As an employee on the floor that has to play music beds. I can't tell you how much we hate moving patients from room to room.This doesn't happen on a daily basis but it does happen.It would be nice to have all private rooms,so that the patient and staff doen't have to go through all this extra work.
HB, you are beginning to hurt your own credibility by continuing to focus on any and every aspect of the daily activity of Floyd Memorial Hospital. It becomes very obvious to all that reads the blog that you would like to see the present Administrator removed from his position. By trying to incite FM employees to come forward and state their concerns, is not really the creditable way to go about this. As we all know the hospital is a County Hospital and I know they have Board Meetings, and you as a Taxpayer have the "right" to attend these meetings. I would think that the correct way to address these issues would be to attend one of these meetings and with facts in hand, present the concerns to the Board. They would have 2 options, they could either show you the door or let you vent your concerns. It is my belief that they would choose the latter. It has always been my belief that if you gather the facts on the obvious and not waste your time complaining about everthing, you are much more effective. People tend to not give the chronic complainer much creditability. You come across in a much better light when you are posting subjects that do not deal with negativity. Granted it is OK to voice your concerns, but it is not very flattering to your image to try to entice other people to do it. Go to the meetings and address the Board up front, and have your facts either in writing or some means that support your concerns, it might make you feel better and also then it may help your patients. You can't possibly be at your best with such hostility toward an institution that you have to deal with each day.
HB wrote:
"Certainly there have been plenty of abuses in the past related to physicians and pharmaceutical companies, but the government has curtailed this practice to almost nothing in primary care."
I don't know about "primary care" doctors but the news has never stopped about the close financial relationship between doctors conducting drug studies and the companies producing those drugs. Just yesterday there was a story about how medical journals are having trouble with journal authors who fail to reveal financial conflicts of interest. And lots of doctors get paid by drug companies for conducting seminars touting that company's drugs.
I disagree. Dr. Dan is always happy, polite and courteous. He has stopped to help me carry and lift heavy things when he has passed by. I've personally seen him help move patients, pull them up in bed and help them off the commode.
He pats me and my coworkers on the back in the mornings when he sees us and always has time for a greeting. Not many others do this.
He is a good and caring person.
If you are refering to my posting, I never said HB was not a good and caring person. My point is to have as much hostility against the current administration, it must be a hardship on him to have to walk in the door of the hospital. Granted he may be smiling and patting everyone on the back, but if you read his many posting, it looks like he is taking his frustions out in the posting on this blog. Maybe this is the only way he is able to vent his anger, I'm sure he has told his patients many times it is not healthy to hold emotions inside. As strong as his opinions are regarding the status of the present administration of the hospital, just posting on this blog is not going to accomplish anything but just getting to vent his opinion and maybe some people will agree and some will not. The real way to promote change is to gather FACTS and present them to the powers that be. That and only that will bring about the change that he sees as problems. As long as we have a governing board, you, I or HB's opinions in reality do not matter. But presented with ACTUAL FACTS, and with ACTUAL DATA to prove those facts the Elected Board Members would have to take action.
I am still confused on the bed situation at Floyd. I do remember them stating that the hospital would feature all private rooms once the new section was opened. Since then I've had the opportunity to visit friends and family hospitalized. I couldn't help notice that, with the exception of a couple rooms, all the rooms on the 2nd floor are now private. When I visited someone on the 3rd floor all or most of the rooms there were semi-private. Additionally I saw where the old ICU and TCU on the 2nd floor was sitting there empty & idol. I also heard that in the new addition, about their PCU unit, are two brand new floors sitting empty and being used for storage. With that said, there appears to be a lot of wasted space that could or should be used for patient care. It sounds like when Floyd decided to expand they may have put the cart before the horse.
The last anonymous commenter has hit the bullseye. He/she is exactly correct.
People do learn when they are given enough information
Rumor that is going around the hospital is that the 3rd floor will get a face lift and become private rooms.The present unit will be moving to the new section on the 3rd floor.Who knows when this will happen.
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