The Great Worker Shortage Is Causing Basic Services to Really Break Down All Across America

"We are doing everything we can to reopen as soon as possible, though some locations may remain closed for an extended period of time." Even more alarming is what staffing shortages are doing to hospitals all across the nation.

Without enough qualified personnel, many hospitals are having a really difficult time delivering basic services right in the middle of this pandemic, and the cost of hiring replacements has even pushed some facilities into bankruptcy The U.S. health-care profession is suffering its own Great Resignation, pushing more hospitals into financial distress just as a winter surge of the coronavirus hits.

Across the country, hospitals are buckling under the strain of nursing shortfalls and the spiraling cost of hiring replacements.

Because there is such a lack of nurses, any that become available are often the subject of bidding wars, and those with the biggest checkbooks end up winning "This is like survival stakes," said Steven Shill, head of the health-care practice at advisory firm BDO USA. Winners are "Whoever's highest on the food chain and who has the biggest checkbook." The staffing companies - agencies that provide nurses and other staff on a temporary basis - are "Really, really, really gouging hospitals." I specifically warned that a lot of these hospitals in blue states were going to be facing severe personnel shortages as a result of the absurd mandates that were being imposed.

Patients just continue to pour into our hospitals at an alarming rate.

At one hospital in Ventura County, large numbers of people are coming in complaining of "Unexplained heart problems, strokes and blood clotting", and this has pushed the patient census at that hospital to the highest level ever Dana, another ICU nurse, says the number of sick, critically ill people in her Ventura County hospital has become "Overwhelming," pushing her facility's patient census to the highest levels she has ever seen.

"We don't normally see this amount of strokes, aneurysms and heart attacks all happening at once. Normally we'll see six to ten aortic dissections a year. We've seen six in the last month. It's crazy. Those have very high rates of mortality." Similar scenarios are playing out at countless other hospitals all across America.
 

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