Look, the bottom line here folks is simple - Tenet had an obligation to it's patients. As a private company Tenet had an obligation to - CARE FOR THEM and to evacuate them to another Tenet facility using private means as necessary, i.e., helicopters, boats, whatever and they failed to do it.

Ebbie - libel your ass - in a hospital you're dealing with people's lives not just giving an opinion about chords or whether or not someone's research on a song source is accurate or not.

Chew on this for one: when I worked at Tenet they used as few RN's as they could get away with, letting them supervise as few LVN's as they could get away with and then stocking up with as many nurse tech's as they could get on the floor. Bucks man, just bucks - tech's are cheaper than LVN's and LVN's are cheaper than RN's and if you hire as few as you can for full time positions and bring everyone else in on a PRN basis then you don't have to pay benefits and all the other things.

Oh, yes, one more thing - tech's have very limited training and can't "do" a whole bunch of "nursey" things and the few "nursey" things they can do must be supervised by a qualified nurse; and, LVN's have less schooling and fewer skills than RN's and can't do many RN things (yes, there are exceptions and no, we don't need all the skilled LVN's on the planet writing in to argue this point, thank you)...and...well, I think you get the picture. At Tenet you also give each nurse the maximum patient load and as the day goes on and folks are discharged well, you don't have to reduce the nurse/patient ratio to a humane level, you just send enough nursing staff home early so you're keeping the ratio up and the costs down and - making them bucks.

I haven't even started guys. There's been no talk about the physicians mistakes that resulted in patient sufferage - with no disciplinary action taken; patient charges; staff reductions that lead to folks not getting necessary treatments on time - or at all.
For the record I also worked at Baylor University Medical Center and many of the things I saw going on at Tenet never came close to taking place at Baylor.

My bottom line here is to try to open some eyes about a health care provider who does a sub-standard job - in my opinion. I don't know you and you don't know me; but, a travesty has happened and I have had a relationship with the corporate entity in question and again, using my experience as an employee with Tenet - TENET HEALTH CARE IS IN THE BUSINESS OF MAKING MONEY FIRST AND TENDING TO YOUR HEALTH CARE SECOND - take it or leave it, your health care is your decision. Cheers,............Texas Guest