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Posted on May 22 at 11:15 a.m.
Morpheus, you bring up a very good point. The new Administration company is trying to get the hospital making a profit so it will look good to buyers and be sold. This shows that bad management has been NRMC's only problem. With good management there's no reason NRMC shouldn't make a profit. I see no reason to sell it to a private company only to see them jack up the price of our healthcare when it can still be profitable with good management as a county hospital.
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Posted on May 18 at 10:27 p.m.
Good for you JustAPerson! Read more closely. I said Big Corps. like HMA don't care about the patients just about money. I said nothing about the staff at NCH.
Posted on May 18 at 10:19 p.m.
No Quorum took over around 1993. Before then, Bill Mitchel was the Administrator and there was no management company. The then Jeff Davis Hospital had 10 Million in the bank and Mr. Mitchel was making preperations to buy Natchez Community{ Hummana back then} but he didn't inform the board of trustees about his plans to buy them out until it was almost a done deal. One of the doctors on the board, can't remember now who it was, got mad and they voted Mr. Mitchel out. If they would have just let him buy them we wouldn't be in this mess now.
Posted on May 18 at 12:50 a.m.
I've been at NRMC for 17 years and let me just say that Bad Management by Quorum is why the hospital is in the hole not overstaffing. Sure there were some departments that might have been overstaffed a bit and there are definitley to many Doctors on our payroll but Quorums terrible management is what has put us in the shape were in. I hope that we do sue Quorum since we paid them to manage us and in my opinion they did not do there jobs. But I also think that the Board of supervisors and the Board of trustees should have corrected this long ago. This didn't just happen overnight it's been years of mis management.
Good Luck to Kirby. She was the perfect RN in my book. Hardworking, Loved her Job, and always ready to help patients or fellow coworkers. She is the kind of nurse every hospital should have on their floor. Too bad NRMC doesn't have Kirby R.N. on it's floor anymore.
Posted on May 14 at 4:26 p.m.
corrected link from above post....sorry
Posted on May 14 at 4:17 p.m.
Having 2 for profit hospitals will only hurt the citizens of Natchez. For profit hospitals charge lots more for services than a county owned hospital. Natchez Community was one of the top 10 most expensive hospitals in the state in 2005 according to this article and I'm sure it's only gone up. Follow this link to it and go to pages 70-71.
http://www.calnurses.org/research/pdfs/I.........
Also, the people that have the most experience only stay at Natchez Regional because of the retirement {PERS}. If it is sold the PERS will be gone and the best most experienced employees will be gone. So the city of Natchez will be left with two expensive hospitals and degraded health care. I don't think we should sell our county hospital just because of several years of bad management. The poor people won't be the only ones suffering if this happens, the whole county will suffer. Big Corporations like HMA don't care about patients. They only care how much money they make.
Call your supervisors and tell them you don't want to lose your county hospital to the money hungry corporations. They are the only ones that can keep this from happening.
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Posted on May 13 at 9:14 p.m.
Having 2 for profit hospitals will only hurt the citizens of Natchez. For profit hospitals charge lots more for services than a county owned hospital. Natchez Community was one of the top 10 most expensive hospitals in the state in 2005 according to this article and I'm sure it's only gone up. Follow this link to it and go to pages 70-71.
http://www.calnurses.org/research/pdfs/I......
Also, the people that have the most experience only stay at Natchez Regional because of the retirement {PERS}. If it is sold the PERS will be gone and the best most experienced employees will be gone. So the city of Natchez will be left with two expensive hospitals and degraded health care. I don't think we should sell our county hospital just because of several years of bad management. The poor people won't be the only ones suffering if this happens, the whole county will suffer. Big Corporations like HMA don't care about patients. They only care how much money they make.
Call your supervisors and tell them you don't want to lose your county hospital to the money hungry corporations. They are the only ones that can keep this from happening.
Posted on May 13 at 9:13 p.m.
Having 2 for profit hospitals will only hurt the citizens of Natchez. For profit hospitals charge lots more for services than a county owned hospital. Natchez Community was one of the top 10 most expensive hospitals in the state in 2005 according to this article and I'm sure it's only gone up. Follow this link to it and go to pages 70-71.
http://www.calnurses.org/research/pdfs/I...
Also, the people that have the most experience only stay at Natchez Regional because of the retirement {PERS}. If it is sold the PERS will be gone and the best most experienced employees will be gone. So the city of Natchez will be left with two expensive hospitals and degraded health care. I don't think we should sell our county hospital just because of several years of bad management. The poor people won't be the only ones suffering if this happens, the whole county will suffer. Big Corporations like HMA don't care about patients. They only care how much money they make.
Call your supervisors and tell them you don't want to lose your county hospital to the money hungry corporations. They are the only ones that can keep this from happening.
Posted on April 3 at 1:16 p.m.
We are eligible for SS even after we get our 25 years and start recieving our PERS. Got paid today and on my stub my SS was $93.67 and my PERS was $121.23. PERS is figuered by a certain percentage of what you earn but I can't remember the exact number right now.
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Posted on August 5 at 11:37 a.m.
I work at NRMC and from what the CEO Scott Phillips has told us in the employee forums he was brought here for one purpose and that is to get the hospital in shape to sell. Once it's sold he goes home.
From what he has told us, to sell a county owned hospital it is required that you hire a consulting group to do an evaluation. Once they recommend to sell then the second step is the public meeting must be held which will be Aug 27th. Now he says that if 1500 citizens sign a petition against the sell that it would have to be voted on by the county in November. I find it strange that this has been mentioned in private hospital meetings but not to the public. I think the public should be given the chance to vote on whether to sell the county owned hospital or not.
According to Phillips the hospital made 500,000 profit last month. This shows with the new restructuring we can be profitable.
As far as the long term employees being a minority, I'm not sure what the percentage is. But I do know that we have dedicated many years of service to this hospital and don't think we should just be cast aside only to loose our years in the PERS retirement system like outcasts.
I agree with you Misslou: The supervisors need to do some research on percentage of long term employees. We've been dedicated to the county hospital, now it's time for our county supervisors to be dedicated to us.
On Hospital study: Sell