Any other CHS victims out there?
Posted By: "Transitioned" on 2009-03-16
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About 1-1/2 years ago, CHS (Community Health Systems) acquired our hospital along with a large number of other U.S. hospitals, rocketing CHS to the largest publicly traded hospital corporation in America. A few months ago, CHS entered into partnership with Spheris and mandated all of its hospitals that still had transcription depts. to outsource to Spheris/CHS. There were 35 full-time MTs employed by our hospital; many had been there over 10 years, and a number of us had been there for 15, 20 and 25 years. A few were just a year or two short of retirement. Spheris/CHS offered to transition any MT from our hospital at the same rate of pay for 3 months, after which Spheris's rate of pay would kick in. Of course their benefits package is substantially inferior to what we had. If anyone didn't want to transition to Spheris, they were technically not considered laid off and therefore not eligible for unemployment benefits.
If only physicians would actually read their reports, refuse to sign them if the quality is inferior, and demand that hospital administrators hire competent on-site MTs or insist on STRINGENT Quality Assurance from MTSOs that do not hire offshore MTs. But alas, this is just a fantasy!
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This strikes me as a real victim mentality. There are crap jobs in every field, and we all have to make our own decisons in terms of what we will and will not accept. The MT field is what it is, and you can either find a job that suits you in this field or go into another field. I sure don't feel like a victim. I just recently changed jobs because I didn't like the changes my company was making. It was tough and took a while, but I kept looking until I found a company that would give me what I wanted. I don't feel exploited in the least.
Any other CHS victims out there?
About 1-1/2 years ago, CHS (Community Health Systems) acquired our hospital along with a large number of other U.S. hospitals, rocketing CHS to the largest publicly traded hospital corporation in America. A few months ago, CHS entered into partnership with Spheris and mandated all of its hospitals that still had transcription depts. to outsource to Spheris/CHS. There were 35 full-time MTs employed by our hospital; many had been there over 10 years, and a number of us had been there for 15, 20 and 25 years. A few were just a year or two short of retirement. Spheris/CHS offered to transition any MT from our hospital at the same rate of pay for 3 months, then Spheris's rate of pay would kick in. Of course their benefits package is substantially inferior to what we had. If anyone didn't want to transition to Spheris, they were technically not considered laid off and therefore not eligible for unemployment benefits.
If only physicians would actually read their reports, refuse to sign them if the quality is inferior, and demand that hospital administrators hire competent on-site MTs or insist on STRINGENT Quality Assurance from MTSOs that do not hire offshore MTs. But alas, this is just a fantasy!
Any other CHS victims out there?
About 1-1/2 years ago, CHS (Community Health Systems) acquired our hospital along with a large number of other U.S. hospitals, rocketing CHS to the largest publicly traded hospital corporation in America. A few months ago, CHS entered into partnership with Spheris and mandated all of its hospitals that still had transcription depts. to outsource to Spheris/CHS. There were 35 full-time MTs employed by our hospital; many had been there over 10 years, and a number of us had been there for 15, 20 and 25 years. A few were just a year or two short of retirement. Spheris/CHS offered to transition any MT from our hospital at the same rate of pay for 3 months, after which Spheris's rate of pay would kick in. Of course their benefits package is substantially inferior to what we had. If anyone didn't want to transition to Spheris, they were technically not considered laid off and therefore not eligible for unemployment benefits
If only physicians would actually read their reports, refuse to sign them if the quality is inferior, and demand that hospital administrators hire competent on-site MTs or insist on STRINGENT Quality Assurance from MTSOs that do not hire offshore MTs. But alas, this is just a fantasy!
WHEN will victims of D&L shut them down?
All of you should band together and let THEIR clients know they are cheating you out of your fees, and tell then you will be taking D&L to Court so they can prepared to be subpoena'd. I DOUBT DL client's will tolerate this, and may force DL to clean up their act.
I have compassion for smaller companies for short-term problems, but they did this to me, too, and that was in 2002 (or 2003)!!
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