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DiscussionHealthcare delivery + availability crisis in North Carolina
Just Want to Talk | Last Active: Sep 29, 2023 | Replies (9)Comment receiving replies
Replies to "Thank you so much Colleen. I will check the map to see if I could get..."
Duke University Health System in Durham is an option.
I'm sorry you are going through this. Unfortunately your story is far from unique.
This is happening weekly, all across the country. For profit health care stepped into gaps over the past several years, and now, as it becomes obvious to them that with caps on Medicare and insurance payments and rising costs, that the profits aren't there, closures are rising.
At the same time, small market/small town and rural providers cannot compete on salary and benefits, so are faced with severe staff shortages. To compensate, they hire travelling nurses, docs, techs... paying roughly 2-3 times what it would cost for permanent staff. When reserves are depleted, these small facilities are yet one more casualty of our system in crisis.
And after 3-4 years of short tenure and uncertain future, the lure of higher pay is beginning to fade for the travelers and their families. This doesn't even take into account the lack in continuity of care, the resentment of permanent staff for the "temps" making twice as much as they are and able to choose their shifts, turn down overtime, and move on whenever they want.
To everyone thinking of moving to chase better care - the crisis is everywhere! The shortage of care is everywhere. We are in a medical Eden, with medical schools, teaching hospitals and Mayo all within an easy commute, we have excellent insurance, and we have the same problem with access, long waits, and staff turnover as others here are reporting.
Great minds are needed to find the solution.
Sue