tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3446925960495395223.post7250985040520842971..comments2023-10-01T02:44:46.907-07:00Comments on ICAN Twin Cities Blog: Maple Grove's Opening Act? A C-SectionKarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13644772414380938735noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3446925960495395223.post-66827756148607631152010-01-17T21:36:34.961-08:002010-01-17T21:36:34.961-08:00yes, you are correct Sarah, Jill and Chrish they a...yes, you are correct Sarah, Jill and Chrish they are focusing on exactly that, c-sections and induction, as many as they can get on the books. That is where they say "they are focused and going to make the money".<br />The director running labor and delivery and surgery isn't helping staff out to learn they're jobs or creating any proper work flows to ensure them to be successful at their work. She lacks managerial, accountability and credibility.<br /> They are short staffed and didn't hire enough staff to open the hospital, they were not prepare or ready to start surgery's, they haven't had the proper supply's or instruments and have been scrabbling from day one, total chaos and not organized to start serving the clinics or the public.<br />They are hiring people from temp agency's to fill in L&D, and over working the one they hired.<br />Fact!! they were not prepared at all to open, but had to, due to grants and getting a tax deductions.<br />Not to mention, they are already firing people after just a short time of being open, and this is from their own negligence in poor and fast training to get opened. Staff is confused and being misguided as to their responsibilities. They are hiring people for less wages than competition and work them like a horse theory. Since people are at the mercy of the economy and being jobless. That is why they only hired 200 people out of 8500 applicants.<br />They also want to claim they are not part of North Memorial, but NM owns 75% of it and NM is assisting them in supply's, instruments, training,employees, billing ETC. If they are separate, why are they modeling NM hospital? and the ambulatory center right next to them. Something to think about.<br />Best wishes to those who decide to receive care from them and I hope nothing catastrophic happens.<br />" Its not what they do, but how they do it" Is one of the guiding principal and a very Misleading principals.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07351616109151968396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3446925960495395223.post-49146414716247966332010-01-17T21:18:04.124-08:002010-01-17T21:18:04.124-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07351616109151968396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3446925960495395223.post-17285549392921650312010-01-04T15:02:01.475-08:002010-01-04T15:02:01.475-08:00Grrrrr.... My mama-bear brain is dumbstruck right ...Grrrrr.... My mama-bear brain is dumbstruck right now.... grrrrr is all I can come up with!!<br />Who cares about the long and short term health implications of this business plan of theirs.... First do no harm my ear.SheGotHipsLikeCinderellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12154840313904258505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3446925960495395223.post-57720205723210407852010-01-03T19:19:32.799-08:002010-01-03T19:19:32.799-08:00Wow, Jill and Chrish! Thank you for sharing that l...Wow, Jill and Chrish! Thank you for sharing that link...sad but true. Babies = Big Bucks for Big Business and cesareans are the biggest cha-ching of all...Sarahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06617849973161532670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3446925960495395223.post-21943389516107745962010-01-01T20:19:01.940-08:002010-01-01T20:19:01.940-08:00I've been trying to decide what to say about t...I've been trying to decide what to say about this story since yesterday. Mostly, the story made me sad. "Dad and big brother" were showing baby off sans mommy because she was probably still recovering from her major abdominal surgery. Then they mention that the hospital's focus is on labor and delivery...well, maybe not the labor so much. I found another story from earlier this year that seems a more accurate description of what is going on - the hospital was expensive so they are focusing on delivering babies to get their books into the black. And we all know that c-sections will get you into the black a lot faster than boring old natural labor and birth!<br />http://twincities.bizjournals.com/twincities/stories/2009/08/03/story1.htmlJill V.https://www.blogger.com/profile/05695652164846531199noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3446925960495395223.post-30928072511926414842010-01-01T06:40:31.818-08:002010-01-01T06:40:31.818-08:00It is disheartening but not surpising that the fir...It is disheartening but not surpising that the first birth was a scheduled c-section. It sounds as though the hospital is planning for a rise in csections and no change in current obstetrical practices. It will be interesting to see if in a year they top Abbotts high rate. And if they have many, if any, VBACs!heather dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11873616514586116459noreply@blogger.com