This is somewhat surprising to read, at least as to the "shuttering floors" and ER wait times.
Since they bought it? From an absolutely horrible person experience with a close family member, Anderson has been awful for decades. It is well known in these parts as a place to stay away from. It may be that Baptist is just having a hard time getting out the cultural rot.
no. it's much worse than it was. if that's possible. Oschner's/Rush isn't any better. They say they "don't have any rooms". They have plenty of rooms. They don't have staff and have shuttered floors. Both hospitals
Yeah me too. I was hoping they'd get it. I'd rather Starkville be run by a local/MS hospital, that is well run, than a hospital based out of Memphis. Seems Baptist in a Columbus is doing well so hopefully they get Starkville on track. Baptist in Oxford is supposedly doing good as well.
I’d rather have Baptist. Baptist Oxford is really good.
Wow. Ochner's name is on everything around now.
Any idea what is driving the staff shortage? Is it lack of available, qualified, competent skilled nursing?
They did but they weren't going to get into a bidding war with Baptist for it because they just purchased a hospital in Marion Co., Alabama within the last few months.
Not surprised by neurosurgery, but what’s the neurology situation? Is there a group or some employed or pure locums/staffing agency.
Anderson bought Riley's and turned it into a swing bed and wound care center. I hear Baptist is looking to shutter it. Don't know if true but my source is a cardiologist in Meridian who I've been friends with since we were 5 years old
Availability of staff is what I'm told. I heard from a good source that Baptist is doing a lot of cost cutting, which isn't necessarily a bad or unexpected thing after buying an asset snd evaluating where it is financially. But they are driving off a lot of patients. I know a lot of people have moved their health care to Laurel, Hattiesburg, Birmingham, Tupelo, or Jackson area
Nawww mane this board told me that administrators are a dime a dozen. Need to FAHHHRRR all their overpaid assses. Need more teachers, and in this case, nurses, amirite??
Don't worry, as long as there's MSU sports teams, there will be a need for cardiac response teams as well
My parents still live in Meridian and I live in Birmingham - we always tell them that if they need something other than a regular checkup, we are bringing them over here. They routinely have to travel for Jackson for what should be a local visit in a town that used to have 3 major hospitals.
Ehh, I dont think so. I think you could see Baptist refocus, if you will, in GTR market.
I think your neighbor is exactly right, and that is the pitch Baptist made. Looking at it as the GTR market for physicians, not just Starkville and/or Columbus.
Well, State has a hospital administrator grad program now, maybe you should apply??
I don't know, having to walk the aisle to get service worries me**
This is what I assume the long term plan is. The Baptist hospital in Columbus is old. Maybe older than the “old” Oxford hospital at least by the look of it. One would hope when the time comes to build a new facility, they would build it in Starkville; hopefully similar to what they have in Oxford. Starkville is going to be a much easier sell than Columbus when it comes to recruiting physicians and other staff. Additionally, the patient mix going to be a lot better in Starkville with all the retirees moving there.
It was basically about limiting competition, but the argument for it as I understand it was something along the lines of "We are a rural state and medical facilities and equipment are expensive. Also, a lot of facilities are going to have to draw from nearby areas to be viable. If you want people to invest in areas like that, you have to give them some kind of certainty that somebody isn't simultaneously putting in a similar investment in a nearby town that's going to make them uneconomic. SO to do that, you you need to require people to give notice of their plans and require approval." It's pretty much a garbage argument that everybody would recognize as garbage in every other industry, but people for some reason healthcare is somehow completely unique compared to any other industry in a way that is not true for every industry if you get granular enough.
Ironically, Baptist would fight like hell to preserve the Certificate of Need statutes as they exist. Make no mistake, Baptist does not want the CON laws changed.
