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2020-04-23 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Michigan Health Care System Furloughs Nearly 2,500 Employees

[NEWSWEEK] early 2,500 employees at one of Michigan's largest health care systems learned on Tuesday they would be furloughed, due to particularly dire financial circumstances related to the novel coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)

coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)

...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
outbreak.

Beaumont Health, which has 38,000 employees serving eight hospitals in southeast Michigan, announced that most of the 2,475 members who were temporarily laid off filled administrative roles unrelated to the care of patients afflicted with COVID-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus strain, according to a Stamford Advocate report.

The company also permanently eliminated 450 positions and initiated salary cuts to top executives.

Beaumont Health CEO John Fox, who is taking a 70 percent pay cut, said the health care provider experienced first-quarter losses of $407.5 million in net income revenue as of March 31, and a decrease of $78.2 million in operating revenue during the same period.

Posted by Fred 2020-04-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 administrative roles unrelated to the care of patients

Different time, different disease...in my 6 month study, I found @30% of my interactions were unnecessary or ineffectual.

Posted by Skidmark 2020-04-23 12:06|| 2020-04-23 12:06|| Front Page Top

#2 /\ I found @30% of my interactions were unnecessary or ineffectual.

Mine actually range in the 65-90 percentile. Your results may vary.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-04-23 12:09|| 2020-04-23 12:09|| Front Page Top

#3 Beaumont Health CEO John Fox, who is taking a 70 percent pay cut

Good for him

Posted by Frank G 2020-04-23 12:29|| 2020-04-23 12:29|| Front Page Top

#4 If the corona virus is really as deadly as they say it is, why aren't there people piling into these hospitals for care? Especially with the federal government paying for uninsured corona cases, demand for medical care should be way up.

Something definitely does not add up.

Posted by Tom 2020-04-23 12:47|| 2020-04-23 12:47|| Front Page Top

#5 ^ try adding this up, Major Tom: the Bay Area i.e. San Fran-Oakland San Jose, which ought to be Ground Zero for the COVID epidemic, has a grand total as of this am of 239 COVID fatalities.

239. Out of 8 million people.

And this population includes the largest concentration of Chinese, with thousands of travelers every day arriving from China including directly from Wuhan, during the 6 weeks of the virus's initial spread in Dec-January before the travel ban.

Plus thousands of homeless literally shitting all over SF's streets.

By our fearless leaders' doomsday models, SF and the rest of the Bay Area should have surpassed 10,000 deaths by now, and be well on our way to 50,000 Bay Area deaths. Remember: we're the leading edge of the disease's spread for the US, and we have extreme population density and every sort of high-vulnerability population imaginable -- almost a million Chinese, thousands of homeless, hundreds of thousands of illegals.

Instead of tens of thousands of COVID fatalities the 8-million pop. Bay Area has tallied 239.

Yes, the numbers don't add up.

Posted by Lex 2020-04-23 13:31|| 2020-04-23 13:31|| Front Page Top

#6 Timeline: California reacts to coronavirus

Could be something as simple as not letting the virus get into nursing homes.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-23 14:44|| 2020-04-23 14:44|| Front Page Top

#7 The countermeasure is in the water or the air.
Could just be salt air humidity, or CBD.

Posted by Skidmark 2020-04-23 14:45|| 2020-04-23 14:45|| Front Page Top

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