Faced with lost revenue from canceled elective procedures, hospitals laid off more than 40,000 health care workers in March. Thousands more are expected to be included in April's unemployment figures.
Fae-Marie Donathan was among those who filed for unemployment in April. A nurse for 42 years, she worked until recently as a per diem nurse in the Surgical ICU at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center. As the pandemic took hold in the U.S., Donathan, 64, expected her skills to be essential, but was recently told she would no longer be scheduled.
"The only people who are coming into the hospitals are COVID-19 patients and emergencies," says American Hospital Association Executive Vice President Tom Nickels."All of the so-called elective surgery, hips and knees and cardiac, etcetera, are no longer being done in most institutions around the country."
Some nurses have traveled across the country to hot spots like New York City to find work, unsure if they'll have a job when they return home. But even there, hospitals that were once swamped are finally coming up for air and administrators are now reckoning with the financial impact of the pandemic.President Trump listens as Rick Pollack, president and CEO of American Hospital Association speaks about the coronavirus in the Rose Garden of the White House on April 14.
"Looking at it from a long term perspective, you have to worry about the profession and what's the impact on the profession," saidThe federal government has been distributing a portion of the $100 billion Provider Relief Fund to hospitals and other providers, as part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act. Among the funding is a $10 billion allocation each for rural hospitals and pandemic hot spots.
"Even if [patients] do go back to the hospital, they'll be paying a lot lower rate than they did when they had insurance through their employer," says Christopher Whaley, a policy researcher with the Rand Corporation."This particular issue about what do we do in terms of funding our hospitals is not an issue in Canada. It's not an issue in Great Britain." she says."It's not an issue where there are better funding systems.
Then there are the days she's had her hours cut which makes her worry about the future. So far her hospital has worked to avoid layoffs."Our job title expanded exponentially," she said. She spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of losing her job. The one thing she thought she had was job security."Then the layoffs started coming and I was like 'never mind.
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