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Sunrise Hospital to lay off 100 workers
Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2009 | 7:19 p.m.
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Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center, with one of two trauma centers in Las Vegas, has announced it will lay off 100 workers, including a dozen registered nurses.
Managers, support staff and ancillary employees are included in the mix, said Dan Davidson, a spokesman for Sunrise Hospital.
An increase in uninsured patients and a lack of reimbursement from the state for indigent care led to the layoffs, Davidson said.
Sunrise provided $110 million in uncompensated care in 2008, Davidson said.
At Sunrise Children's Hospital, 60 percent of its patients are either uninsured or on Medicaid, Davidson said.
Hospital administrators looked at controlling supply costs and other efficiency measures before resorting to layoffs.
"Yet we still see we have a financial burden and made the difficult decision to downsize our workforce," Davidson said. "This was a very difficult decision for us."
Sunrise is part of HCA, a nationwide hospital and healthcare provider.
After hospital administrators meet individually with all of the employees facing layoffs, Sunrise is scheduling an employee placement meeting next week where workers can meet other medical facilities and learn of job opportunities.
Since there are HCA institutions in California and other nearby states, Sunrise will try to match jobs out of state with the unemployed workers, Davidson said.
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Sad for the employees to be laid off, but Sunrise Hospital has been declining for several years.
My daughter spent about 1 week in the Pediatric ward as a patient. I was with her constantly during visiting hours. My daughter was also conscious and intelligent enough to me who had come into her room. Never once, during my daughter's stay, was her hospital room cleaned.
That is not right, given the prevalence of nosocomial infections, MRSA and now the risk of swine flu floating through hospitals.
I wouldn't let any family member stay in a hospital with poor patient room sanitation again.
Don't you think it would be worse if a custodial worker went from room to room spreading nosococomial infections, MRSA, and swine flu everyday.
Sean Hannity and Lou Dobbs says there are really not that many uninsured, only 5 million, so this hospital is lying?????
As the healthcare debate continues and we stall fixing an extremely complex healthcare system, we will continue to see a loss of ancillary staff surrounding the nurse at the bedside. This makes it harder for quality care to be delivered! The system needs to be FIXED! The massive amount of uninsured make all our healthcare costs go up. Even the most prudent hospital struggles in this environment.
They didn't say uninsured, they said uninsured OR medicaid covered.. The government has underfunded medicaid for decades and broken the system. They promise medicaid patients full coverage for anything and then pay less than the cost of service and leave hospitals in debt.
If the government cannot fund medicaid, why do you want them to take over your health care. The Obama administration doesn't care if the care is up or down, as long as it is equal. This is just another way to redistribute your income to someone else.
Not quite sure how the comments shifted, but... CynicalObserver, I'm not sure when you were at that hospital, but I am on the Pediatric floor frequently and cannot remember a time where I haven't been inconvenienced slightly by the cleaning staff. They have an under appreciated job to do, and I think they do it quite well. I'm sorry that your unpleasant stay would be cause enough for you to wish 100 people be laid off from their employment, only to become more statistics on the Nevada unemployment data sheet.
"Sean Hannity and Lou Dobbs says there are really not that many uninsured, only 5 million, so this hospital is lying?????"
No, Obumer and the people pushing socialize health care are, they repeatedly say things like 50 million uninsured Americans, when they know it's the illegal aliens draining the system. The number of illegal aliens has been understated.Just look at the reports out of California, and the story of UMC'S 2 million a month of of pocket cost to treat 80 illegal aliens. It time to enforce our immigration laws, putting Americans back to work and clean Las Vegas up.
2many, I totally agree with your comment about the illeagals. It seems our federal government is on track with NAFTA concearning letting undocumented aliens from the south stay here and work the only jobs middleclass Americans have left. Now we are finding out that they have been getting free health care and now in Nevada is taking its toll in many other ways on our citizens. If anyone has read in the last 2 years the United States has county hospitals closing across our nation because they can't recieve money back from our government for the medical treatment that is given to undocumented aliens. The sad reality is that the feds are doing absolutely nothing to fix this problem.
Only until the RJ just released the story on the illegal aliens getting treatment at Sunrise did I hear from maybe a handful of politicians, of course our illustrious Prince Harry hasn't been one of them, that something must be done. Talk is cheap. Too much talk and not enough action. It would be interesting to find out if the politicians who are just finding out about our illegal alien invasion, who is up for reelection? Then we can listen to their talk, which of course will sound good, but they will absolutly have nothing done to resolve the issue in favor of the voting public.
Is this why we vote for our illustrious politicians, only to get false promises and suffer in the meantime while immigrants who are here breaking FEDERAL laws are reaping the rewards? It is time for Nevadans to start screaming at our leaders and not stop until something is done in our favor.
All the money people are FORCED to pay for Social Security & Medicare gets diverted to the Banksters & War Profiteers leaving Congress to pay out ABSOLUTE MINIMUMS for living stipends & health care to people that already paid massive amounts!
yep...better run out and buy a foreclosure to rent out. this town is doing SO well.
Inform the fired workers that the Rescue Mission has a huge bubbling vat of food-bank bean-slurry poured over rice awaiting them; and they can sign up for their Religious Programs to get to the ROOT of why they lost their jobs; their alcohol/drug addictions & mental illness; remember to tell them that after they enter the program their mental illness & addiction issues will be recorded on their medical records for life and they will NEVER be able to step foot in a medical setting to work with those issues.
rejco your sense of humor is quite appalling. Save it for when your out doing your cheap drugs that have obviously eaten half of your brain away. Is there no more compassion towards our fallen citizens?
By the way, the reason they have lost their jobs is because of our Federal Government Expects hospitals to perform medical attention to illegal aliens and not get paid for their services. Their debt is way into the millions. I hope if there is a time when you need medical attention, there will be an emergency open which has survived the parasites who have eaten away at our citizens health and welfare programs.
Obviously the system is working just fine.
Quit asking questions and keep consuming.
I have to worry if I should just have the extra $150 every two weeks so I can pay for basics or get health care that keeps getting more expensive and cost too much with rising deductables that don't even cover getting a band-aid.
"Obviously the system is working just fine.
Quit asking questions and keep consuming".
@ThisOneGuy
Hilarious, perfectly put.
You can't pay the bills with the uninsured as your major clients. Not that they shouldn't get health care, it should make it affordable to have insurance for the masses. So people don't have to decide if little timmy needs to set his broken femur or should I just get dollar menu.
2many,
That 2 million a month is just for those on dialysis! There is no telling what the actual cost of all the healthcare provided to illegals would add up to each month!
I would like to see numbers from each area hospital. Why do you suppose they are reluctant to release these figures.
I know it is illegal for hospital staff to inquire about a patients citizenship, but why? Aren't these figures a necessary element to deal with the problem?
...well, welcome to the land of "gettin' laid"...and not to worry, all you have to do is click on any local (national?) news and see the 2000 unemployed people at the job fairs trying to jockey in on 300 jobs, all those people got "laid" too, so your in good company.
What I don't understand is why health care costs are so high in the first place. To have a baby (without any complications) costs more than $20,000. Why are costs SO high?! Is it because of a combination of both illegal immigrants and lawsuits? People are always suing for millions and millions of dollars.
100 ??? WHO CARES !!! HOW ABOUT THE THOUSANDS OF JOBS TAKEN BY ILLEGAL CONSTRUCTION WORKERS WHO WORK AT CITY CENTER ? ILLEGALS GO TO THESE HOSPITALS DO NOT PAY AND THEN TO HELP THE HOSPITAL budget they lay people off 111 how does it feel //?? WE HOPE MORE PEOPLE LOOSE THEIR JOBS HERE !!!! SHIP THE ILLEGALS BACK HOME !!! NO ONE EVEN SPEAKS ENGLISH ANYMORE !! DO YOU KNOW THAT THE LABOR UNIONS GIVE SPANISH CLASSES AT THEIR TRAINING CENTERS ?? THE ILLEGALS ARE HERE THE JOBS ARE GONE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!