Guest Post by Mark Crispin Miller
Staff shortages are killing patients coast to coast (Honolulu, Fresno, East San Jose, NM, VT), & in Canada, UK, Germany, Italy, Bulgaria, Dubai, China, S. Korea. Singapore, Thailand & all over Africa
Research by Jen Young for News from Underground
Strain on Healthcare: Unpacking the Crisis in Emergency Rooms
February 13, 2024
Hospitals across the globe are reporting their worst emergency figures in over two years, marking a significant strain on the healthcare system. The surge in emergency cases has put tremendous pressure on hospital capacity and resources, raising concerns about the ability to provide timely and effective care to patients. This increase in emergency cases can be attributed to a variety of factors, notably, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, seasonal illnesses, and other health-related issues. The situation necessitates urgent attention and proactive measures to address the growing demand for emergency healthcare services.
https://medriva.com/covid-19/strain-on-healthcare-unpacking-the-crisis-in-emergency-rooms/
250,000 visits to Medicare Urgent Care Clinics take pressure off hospitals
April 4, 2024
The Australian Government’s network of 58 Medicare Urgent Care Clinics have made it easier for hundreds of thousands of Australians to get urgent care from a doctor or nurse, without waiting for hours in busy hospital emergency departments.
Dubai Ambulance responds to over 235,000 emergencies in 2023
April 4, 2024
The Dubai Corporation for Ambulance Services played a critical role in responding to emergencies involving 235,394 individuals in 2023, and achieved a record average response time of 7.5 minutes, a 13 percent improvement from 2022. The organisation also made crucial contributions to saving the lives of 90 individuals who had cardiac arrests in the past year.
https://www.gulftoday.ae/news/2024/04/04/dubai-ambulance-responds-to-over-235000-emergencies-in-2023
Why patients are waiting so long in emergency rooms across Canada
February 14, 2024
As Canada’s emergency rooms grapple with persistent staffing and bed shortages, hospital admission wait times are getting longer. This past December in Ontario, patients waited in ERs for an average of nearly 22 hours before getting admitted to the hospital—almost three times longer than the provincial target time of eight hours. According to Michael Howlett, president of the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians, or CAEP, decades of underfunding fuelled systemic problems, which are now hitting a breaking point. Ontario wait times will likely only get worse, he says, particularly during respiratory virus seasons.
https://macleans.ca/society/health/canada-er-wait-times/
Hospital declares rare ‘black alert’ as patients told to avoid A&E and go home
April 4, 2024
A UK hospital has issued a rare black alert due to “exceptional demand” on its wards. Morriston Hospital in Swansea issued the warning – declaring a ‘Business Continuity Incident’ and said it is seeing high numbers of patients, including many with ‘DIY-related injuries’. People are being urged to seek medical aid elsewhere, if possible, and collect loved ones who have been discharged as soon as possible, so that beds can be freed-up for those in need.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1884941/hospital-black-alert-accident-and-emergency
‘Asking for the public’s help’: ER capacity stretched at Community Regional Medical Center in Fresno
March 12, 2024
FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Fresno’s Community Regional Medical Center issued a warning on Tuesday asking those who need medical attention not to arrive at the hospital’s emergency room unless it is necessary. As part of the warning, Community Regional Medical Center announced that it is experiencing extremely high numbers of patients – stretching the capacity of its emergency department. In a further statement to YourCentralValley.com, Dr. Jeff Thomas with Community Regional Medical Center said that there is not one cause behind the high patient volumes. “We are seeing patients at Community Regional Medical Center who have more severe symptoms and require more complex care, resulting in higher patient volumes and limiting our ability to discharge patients in our normal timeframes.”
CT residents report days wait, adverse outcome, staff burnout due to emergency room overcrowding
February 27, 2024
Patients are waiting days for treatment in emergency rooms across the state in an overcrowding crisis that health care professionals say is only growing worse. But the issue is there is no data to prove it. On Monday, Connecticut lawmakers heard testimony on a bill that would require hospitals to report emergency department data, including bed capacity, patient counts and wait times. The proposal is part of an effort to address a statewide crisis that contributes to staff burnout, delayed diagnoses and adverse health outcomes for patients, according to clinicians. One woman said she spent 52 hours in the hallway of Yale New Haven Hospital’s emergency department before doctors diagnosed her with meningitis in her brain and spine and Bell’s palsy.
East San Jose trauma center closure could break county hospital system
March 30, 2024
The closure of East San Jose’s only trauma center puts the entire Santa Clara County public hospital system in jeopardy and threatens the survival of east side residents suffering a heart attack, stroke or other catastrophic medical event. That was the unequivocal warning from county doctors at an emergency hearing on Wednesday. The hearing before the county Emergency Medical Services Agency comes more than a month after Regional Medical Center — owned by the company HCA Healthcare — announced plans to close its trauma, stroke and heart attack services by Aug. 12, citing financial strain.
Emergency Room Closure In Wahiawa Magnifies A Capacity Crunch
March 25, 2024
As emergency rooms filled with patients, Honolulu’s head of emergency services was tasked with coordinating ambulance arrivals. Consistent with a recent trend nationwide, Honolulu’s emergency rooms are struggling with patient capacity.
https://www.civilbeat.org/2024/03/emergency-room-closure-in-wahiawa-magnifies-a-capacity-crunch/
Rural cities press for more state funding for emergency medical services
April 3, 2024
Sen. Grant Hauschild, DFL-Hermantown, represents an area that’s familiar with the issue and faces some unique challenges in supporting EMS delivery. Hauschild is authoring a bill in the Senate that proposes $120 million for EMS support. The seven ambulance services in Otter Tail County, for example, experienced an estimated $1.5 million loss last year, according to a letter to Hauschild from the chair of the Board of Commissioners. The county urged Hauchild to advocate for $120 million, and also for a second year of funds for 2025. Rep. Dave Lislegard, DFL-Aurora, one of the authors of the House version of the bill, said it’s only a “bandaid to stop the bleeding.”
ER Waits For Hospital Beds Are Deadly. Many Hospitals Aren’t Fixing The Problem
March 13, 2024
The problem of boarding—waiting in the emergency room after being admitted to the hospital—is a deadly, escalating crisis. Unfortunately, real solutions are still a long way off.
If you or a loved one has been hospitalized through an ER recently, you might have spent eight to 12 hours before going to your inpatient bed. While your initial diagnosis and treatment was correctly made by ER doctors and nurses, you could probably tell hours later that they weren’t focused on you anymore because they were handling the new, sicker patients. Ill, injured, or both, it was probably miserable lying for hours on an ER gurney in a hallway. Boarding is nothing new. This’ll surprise you. For years, hospitals have known boarding increases risks of dying in the hospital. Yet many hospitals aren’t taking steps to fix the problem. Some states have enacted laws to stop the practice. There’s even a new quality boarding metric in development. But it could be years before any real change occurs.
Chinese Hospitals Overloaded in Echoes of COVID as Pneumonia Rampages
November 27, 2023
China is grappling with an alarming surge in respiratory illness, particularly among children, in many parts of the country, according to reports in local media, state news outlets and most recently the World Health Organization. The ailments, which the global health agency believes is due in part to an upsurge of mycoplasma pneumonia, is not reported to have caused death or widespread severe illness at this time. However, the outbreak is nonetheless placing immense pressure on China’s healthcare system due to existing limitations. A concerning capacity shortfall in China’s hospitals, among other vulnerabilities, was first raised at the height of the country’s fight against widespread COVID-19 infections this year, after Beijing dropped all anti-virus controls in December—virtually overnight. The Tianjin Children’s Hospital, located in a major port city near Beijing, reported on November 18 a single-day record of 13,171 young patients across its outpatient and emergency departments, according to a local newspaper. Long queues, both inside and outside hospitals, illustrated the the overwhelming demand for medical attention. Videos reportedly showing winding lines at Tianjin Children’s Hospital as well as Shenyang Children’s Hospital, in northeastern Liaoning province, circulated on social media, reflecting the severity of the situation.
https://www.newsweek.com/children-respiratory-flood-chinese-hospitals-1846551
Emergency rooms at major hospitals in South Korea feel heat as medical professors cut working hours
January 4, 2024
SEOUL: Some emergency departments at major hospitals turned away patients or reduced procedures Monday as medical professors began cutting their working hours to cope with growing fatigue caused by a protracted walkout by junior doctors. The professors, who are senior doctors at major hospitals, had said cutting back their working hours is inevitable because they must focus on treating seriously ill and emergency patients while scaling back surgeries and services for outpatients, Yonhap News Agency reported on Monday.
According to the state-run National Emergency Medical Centre, the emergency department at Asan Medical Centre, one of five major general hospitals in Seoul, notified that it is unable to treat stroke patients. Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital, another major hospital in Seoul, announced that its emergency room is unable to accommodate non-critical patients.
About 12,000 trainee doctors have been on strike in the form of mass resignations since Feb. 20, with medical professors having submitted resignations in support of the walkout.
Thailand’s Government Explores Emergency Health Insurance Options for Tourists
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Recent incidents involving foreign tourists and their lack of access to emergency medical treatment have raised concerns about the safety and well-being of visitors. In response to these incidents, Thailand’s Tourism and Sports Ministry and the National Institute for Emergency Medicine are exploring the possibility of expanding the Universal Health Insurance Coverage for Emergency Patients (UCEP) initiative to include foreign tourists.
Opinion: How can the world solve its shortage of health workers?
December 7, 2023
Though it doesn’t get much press, there’s a looming crisis: The world does not have enough health care workers, and demand for them is growing faster than supply. The World Health Organization (WHO) projects a gap of 10 million health workers by 2030. Although no country is exempt from this growing problem, 89% of the shortage is concentrated in low- and middle-income countries. Many countries still struggle to meet the international minimum target set by WHO of 44.5 health workers for every 10,000 people.
This problem is compounded by health workers leaving their home countries to pursue opportunities elsewhere.
How Will Germany Respond to the Global Nursing Shortage?
November 20, 2023
BERLIN — The shortage of nurses around the world is extremely challenging in many ways for healthcare systems. Nurses at the World Health Summit this year discussed how to address this issue as quickly as possible. Carla Eysel, chief human resources and nursing officer at the Charité University Hospital in Berlin, and Helene Maucher, manager of corporate strategy for nursing at German private hospital group Sana Kliniken, illustrated the difficult situation in the field of nursing in Germany while offering potential solutions. The country faces a shortage of more than 35,000 nurses required to maintain the current standard in medical care. Fewer people are starting with basic nursing training, and only 70% of them graduate. Germany is far from achieving the proposed academization of the nursing profession. According to figures from the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB), the rate of prospective nurses with a university-based education was less than 2% in 2021. Moreover, academic qualifications are more common in management roles rather than in clinical positions.
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/998677?form=fpf
Lombardy is looking for nurses in South America
April 2, 2024
Guido Bertolaso, councilor for Welfare of Lombardy, is heading to Argentina and Paraguay to finalize an agreement with local health authorities to bring between 400 and 500 South American nurses to hospitals and healthcare companies in Lombardy by the end of the year. In an interview with Repubblica Milan, Bertolaso stated that this agreement presents a good opportunity to address the severe shortage of nurses in Lombardy.
https://www.breakinglatest.news/health/lombardy-is-looking-for-nurses-in-south-america/
Sofia in need of 1,500 nurses as Bulgaria faces severe medical staff shortages
December 20, 2023
Bulgaria’s healthcare system is grappling with a severe shortage of medical professionals, a report from the Bulgarian Council for Economic Analyses has highlighted, causing concern over the country’s healthcare system, as waiting lists grow and hospitals close.
Franco Locatelli: “There is a lack of nurses and doctors in demanding specialties, emergency rooms are at risk”
April 4, 2024
Scientists and Nobel Prize winners are joining forces to save the National Health Service (NHS) in a letter appealing for more resources and support. The call to action, led by Franco Locatelli, president of the Superior Council of Health, emphasizes the importance of public health and the need for adequate funding to ensure its sustainability. Locatelli highlights the urgent need for more doctors and nurses to meet the increasing complexity of modern medicine. He points out the shortage of nursing staff and the critical situation in emergency rooms and other specialties such as pathological anatomy and microbiology. The lack of attractiveness in certain medical specialties, like emergency-urgency and others, is a concern as it affects the recruitment of young doctors.
Two in three African health workers have witnessed patients die due to staff shortages
October 16, 2023
Close to 60% of Africa’s frontline doctors and nurses have admitted to seeing patients die in wards and hospital waiting bays against a global average of 33%, finds a newly-released report by global trade union federation Public Services International (PSI). The survey analyzed experiences of more than 2,200 unionized medical staff from 12 African countries—including Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, Uganda, Malawi, and Zimbabwe—and found that staff shortages was the leading reason patients die under preventable circumstances.
https://qz.com/africa-health-workers-shortage-deaths-patients-psi-1850925769
Singapore hospitals struggle to meet demand for radiographers, pharmacists amid shortage in healthcare workers
October 20, 2023
SINGAPORE: Some critical healthcare roles in Singapore, such as radiographers and pharmacists, are in short supply, according to a few private hospitals. Industry players said the shortage is driven by multiple factors including an ageing population, new technology and the expansion of healthcare infrastructure.
AMA president sounds alarm on national physician shortage
October 25, 2023
WASHINGTON – In a national address today, American Medical Association President Jesse M. Ehrenfeld, M.D., MPH, spotlighted the growing national physician shortage and corresponding health system in crisis. In remarks delivered at the National Press Club, Dr. Ehrenfeld outlined critical strains on physicians, including enormous administrative burdens, burnout, attacks on science, increased consolidation across health care, a broken Medicare payment system, and health crises that worsen each day.
America faces a shortage of primary care doctors–and they’re drowning in work. Here’s how AI can solve the physician burnout crisis
February 14, 2024
The Association of American Medical Colleges projects we’ll be short as many as 124,000 physicians by 2034, more than a third of them primary care providers. According to a recent survey from Athenahealth, 80% of physicians already report talent shortages within their practices. Doctors keep shouldering ever-larger workloads, creating a vicious cycle that spurs them to leave the profession in droves. In turn, patients are increasingly unable to form the close relationships with providers that we know are valuable for their health.
Warning signs for the U.S. health system are piling up
October 26, 2023
Staffing shortages, more dangerous workplaces, aging physicians and the increasing politicization of medicine: The warning signs for America’s burned-out health care workforce are all there. “The physician shortage that we have long feared — and warned was on the horizon — is here. It’s an urgent crisis, hitting every corner of this country,” American Medical Association president Jesse Ehrenfeld said Wednesday at a National Press Club event. “Imagine walking into an emergency room in your moment of crisis, in desperate need of a physician’s care, and finding no one there to take care of you,” he added. “That’s what we’re up against.”
https://www.axios.com/2023/10/26/health-care-doctor-shortages-warning
NMiF looks at 2023 Elections, New Mexico’s healthcare workforce shortage
November 9, 2023
New Mexico is grappling with a shortage of medical professionals, especially nurses. Recent reporting from New Mexico In Depth’s Marjorie Childress highlights the problem, which at one point this summer left the state short 7,000 nurses. Senior Producer Lou DiVizio hosts a table discussion to ask how legislators and hospitals can help address the problem.
http://news.unm.edu/news/nmif-looks-at-2023-elections-new-mexicos-healthcare-workforce-shortage
Vt. hospitals curb nursing shortage by uptraining other employees
October 24, 2023
ST. ALBANS, Vt. (WCAX) – As staff shortages at Vermont’s hospitals persist, one potential solution being used at hospitals across New England involves training current hospital employees to become nurses. Kelly Campbell, the director of professional development at Northwestern Medical Center in St. Albans, says the daily census of patients has gone from 18 to 34 in recent years. They’ve added beds, but she says the hospital is having a hard time keeping up. “Patients wait longer to access care than they used to. So, when they do they’re sicker or their condition is more acute, there’s a lot of things that play into that,” Campbell said.
Military’s shortage of mental health workers causing long waits for care
February 8, 2024
The military’s shortage of mental health workers and an increase in demand for care has forced troops to seek help off base and sometimes wait a month for appointments, according to a new government report. The Government Accountability Office found 43% of authorized behavioral health care jobs in the military’s Defense Health Agency were vacant as of January 2023, said Alyssa Hundrup, author of the report titled “Defense Health Care: DOD Should Monitor Urgent Referrals to Civilian Behavioral Health Providers to Ensure Timely Care,” which was released Tuesday.
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2024-02-08/military-mental-health-shortages-long-waits-suicide-12944619.html
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The USA is rapidly collapsing and Americans want to talk about football and the Loch Ness monster.
Insanity.
So many indicators, in the storm clouds that have gathered on the horizon.
Been building up for many years.
Now here we are.
They want us dead. We’re useless eaters, consuming finite resources they greedily want for themselves and their kin. They’re not elite, though. They are psychopaths.
Healthcare disappearing? More like sick care, and it pays homage to their profit margins.
All the more reason to try and make healthy choices so to stay out of hospitals and
Doctor’s offices.
I feel for the good folks who have chronic conditions that necessitate frequent trips there.
To those I know that fall into this category, I’ll continue to say a prayer for a return to better health for you. You know who you are.
Healthcare has just evolved. Instead of the old healthcare “we will try to cure you”, healthcare today is “we will help you commit suicide”.
Really cuts down on government healthcare costs!
Can personally attest from current experience that healthcare in the US is a shadow of its former self. Stay healthy, don’t get sick. Nursing care is impossible to get, nurses on staff don’t give a fuck. Also, don’t be white in the hospital.
Or in a long term care facility, if possible.
Unfortunately, with those, too, you get what you pay for.
The cheaper places have staffs of black, where caring work ethics are rare.
Don’t make Granny or Gramps have to endure that.
Mammy knew that dangerous risk, and always feared having to be put into a nursing home.
I get it now, Ma. Sorry we did that to you, but assisted living and the memory loss wing were the best equipped, to be there for you 24/7/365. I hope you’re at peace, and can forgive us for that.
At least we placed you in a premium quality one, where neglect was almost unheard of, as you sailed toward your sunset. Miss ya, babe. Say Hi for me.
Might see ya soon, with the cesspool of shit I’m trying to wade through. Sigh.
Here in british communista our rationed care has been decimated for decades. The elderly ‘care’ facilities are staffed mostly with union zombies with very good pay and little empathy for patients. And, its getting worse which is why the wifes 100 yr old mother is living with us, a new adventure every day.
Or die quickly, before they can get you to a healthcare facility. Once their they will bankrupt your family, and only then let you die.
Health is disappearing. We need less “healthcare” and more health. Food is medicine.
All roads lead to depop. Every move on the part of TPTB is in the service of depop and full-spectrum techno-dominance. Everything happening may be viewed and understood from that vantage point.
They, the Communists, won’t be happy until Hellth Care is instituted across their WEPH/NWO/Beast System plantation.
Starting at the 2:06 mark….
I couldn’t put her in the hospital; the doctor wanted to vaccinate…he became the spokesperson for J&J…
You want to fight about abortion rights, under the WHO Treaty, you won’t get to decide anything…
Now that’s a wonderful daughter.
All part of the plan. When you are going for depopulation, it only makes sense to weaponize and reduce available medical care. We are seeing this happen in real time right before our eyes yet the sheeple do nothing. Look at the medical care that was delayed or didn’t happen during the “pandemic.” Next time it will be even worse. The sheeple readily complied so with Disease X restriction and duration of no medical care will be even longer next time.
Our ration care here in british communista has been this way for 3 – 4 decades. But people here won’t consider anything ro fix the system. They’ll freak out and screech about not touching their free medical.
These same people absolutely refuse to believe that the overly expensive training, the burying in unnecessary paperwork, the govt firing doctors and nurses for not getting jabbed, the refusal to rehire these same doctors, the fact that the govt is the ONE creating this mess but somehow its not their fault.
Talked to a guy in the park where I walk the dog, his wifes a teacher so both well educated, about all the above and in the end he stated he don’t believe it. Of course my WTF!! are you stupid surely isn’t the reason he won’t talk to me anymore. I’m so worried, any advise on what I should do to repair this passing acquaintance.
Sorry for your worries, anon. Alas, your doggie pals are attached by their checkbooks and their pensions to their status quo. Public employees benefit from the ‘system.’ Why would they change it or even question it? The rest of us are just their milk cows. They don’t like us either. We pay; they benefit. In the poor bedraggled USA, government employees at every level are just not going to want any changes that might benefit the rest of us. That’s why Washington DC is hugely filled with Democrats and why its justice system and its juries are so profoundly biased that they can gleefully subject those poor J6 prisoners to such abuse. We are well and truly f—-d. Sad times.
You’ll have better luck talking to their dogs.
Problem 1) You require all health care workers to get jabbed. The smart ones say FU and quit.
Problem 2) Health care becomes a giant bureaucracy controlled by bean-counters rather than medical people. The smart doctors and nurses say FU and quit.
Problem 3) The government decides it fix the health care “problem” by controlling it. This creates havoc in health care and the smart doctors and nurses say FU and quit.
Here is the future: private clinics where your family pays an annual fee like a health club. You then will probably be assessed a reasonable cost for any major work. The clinics will not take insurance and will definitely not take government funding. The riff-raff will be stuck with the government system, while those who can afford it will have their own private doctors on call.
This is already happening in Canada where my son and his family recently joined a clinic that had a two-year waiting list. Needless to say the government hates this scenario because it dislikes competition and the Trudeau Communist Party is doing everything it can to stop this shit.
Now that Med University graduates are based on skin-color in stead of merit, the quality and availability of Medical “professionals” should relieve any pressures. Now that actual qualifications and standards are out-the-window, average life expectancy should drop to about 40 years old.
“Healthcare” is an oxymoron
A non-sequitur too.
As for the problems here in the US, the author makes absolutely zero mention of the 8,000 pound elephant in the room — the 65,000,000 million illegal aliens in the United States …
none of this is news. anyone with a few brain cells knew that the bioweapons would take their tolls. wait till the deaths start to pile up. people will still be baffled. the elite despise the goyim for a reason.