Thursday, January 08, 2009

Letters To The Snooze....1/20


I saw this in the letters from readers, and thought: This has to go mainstream...


I agree in part with the editorial in a recent issue of the News regarding the future of your local hospital. I worked for the former McCusition Regional Medical Center in the 1990s, and until I left for Colorado in 1999, I was proud to be an employee at that facility, and promoted it as best I could.

I also worked for Christus St. Joseph amid the Essent-run PRMC for a short while, and could readily tell the difference between the two. I was not then, nor am I now, impressed with the Essent way of doing things, nor how they treat employees and communicate with the community.

I also disagree strongly with PRMC CEO Chris Dux’s statement about how much black ink the hospital has. A quick search at the ahd.com website would show that PRMC was in the red as recently as last year, as was every Essent facility save one. Perhaps the layoffs and other financial cutbacks will help the so-called bottom line, but only time will tell. One could also make the excuse that decreased Medicare and Medicaid payments are the root cause ­— they’re part of the problem, but not all of it. It takes two to tango, and in my opinion Essent is out of step here.

I am not the “anonymous blogger” Essent is looking for, but I am a former Paris resident who feels that the community deserves better than the facility Essent has running now. I am 100 percent for a decent medical center for my former neighbors and friends, but I don’t think Essent is the one to provide it.


Amen, brother....

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

I overheard the duck dismissing this letter to the editor because the author was "just a lab tech".

Anonymous said...

"I saw this in the letters from readers, and thought: This has to go mainstream..."

Ha yeah and it will probably be read by more people here than in the snooze.

Anonymous said...

Maybe 'just a patient' could be exchanged for that comment!

As to readership, how many people log to the blog on a weekly basis? Two thousand? Three? or more?

Anonymous said...

Yeah, I'm just a lab tech- 29 years of experience, and I've been in this field longer than Duckboy as been in his. Obviously he has his head up his tailfeathers.

Wonder if it were "just a nurse", "just an X-ray tech", "just a respiratory therapist" if he woukld dismiss it? Tells you all you need to know about Ducky and the company he represents.

What I said stands.

Anonymous said...

AMEN TO THAT... WE HERE IN AYER MA FEEL THE SAME WAY ABOUT NVMC. THEY ALLOW THE BIG WIGS TO HAVE 6 FIGURE PAYCHECKS BUT LAY OFF STAFF. ON TOP OF THAT THEY ALLOW INCOMPITENT DRS TO PRACTICE THERE. ESSENT NEED TO GO AND SOMEONE NEEDS TO STEP IN AND TAKE OVER THAT IS IN IT FOR THE RIGHT REASONS.

Anonymous said...

Arent ducks supposed to fly south for the winter?

Anonymous said...

yOU CAN BUY fEDERAL DUCK STAMPS AT WALMART. tHE PROBLEM WOULD BE IN ID,YOU MUST KNOW WHAT TYPE OF DUCK YOUR GOING FOR.

Anonymous said...

Ever since that letter was printed in the Snooze, there has been this roaring silence from PRMC. Wonder if the writer hit a raw nerve? Where are the Essent apologists, the Duck-lovers, the certain employees who take crap day after day and think it's rock candy? Why haven't they spoken out? Where is the opposing view, supporting Essent's policies and PRMC's recent moves? Why haven't such lumiaries as Graxiola and Madewell written scathing commentaries supporting or condemning the hospital?

Nothing but the sound of crickets chirping from 820 Clarksville......