Nursing shortage, COVID surge force hospitals to divert ambulances

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9 thoughts on “Nursing shortage, COVID surge force hospitals to divert ambulances

  1. Mostly lies and shame on IBJ for printing it, what happened to True Journalism. We are in the age of Propaganda now. Hospitals have fired those employees/nurses that worked through initial phase while unvaccinated and because they have healthy immune systems and choose not to get the vaccine (or for whatever personal choice they have chosen to express), they have been let go. Big Business/Hospitals etc. are cow towing to Left and Big Tech.

    1. You could not be more wrong. Most of us nurses are vaccinated and cannot understand the nurses who aren’t. I know of nurses who caught it and got really sick, and died. We nurses are tired and frustrated. I thought that covid brought about the true appreciation of nurses and realization that we are critical to health care and should be compensated. That faded fast. Hospitals admin is the fat at the top who take all the money without truly knowing what goes on at the bedside.

    2. Name one lie in this story. Or hush. And by the way, how about you tow your cow to a dictionary? Moo.

  2. How about we mention the fact that a lot of people still use the ER as a Doctor’s office instead of for true emergencies? I have been in the waiting room on a Saturday night recently at Eskenazi waiting to go see a family member brought by ambulance while numerous people kept coming and coming in for almost nothing. Like really.

    And if it is Covid related, were all the hospitals on diversion during the peak? Because we are nowhere near what last year was like-nowhere near…

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