Researchers that tracked patients for months or years after an ICU stay found that some, even young ones, can be weak for years. Some have difficulty thinking and concentrating or have post-traumatic stress disorder and terrible memories of nightmares they had while heavily sedated. While patients may be suffering lingering effects from illnesses that landed them in the ICU, researchers are increasingly convinced that spending days, weeks or months on life support in the units can elicit surprising, long-lasting effects.
So now some ICUs are trying a solution: reducing sedation levels and getting patients up and walking even though they are gravely ill.
This opinion piece in The New Republic is from Jacob S. Hacker, co-director of the Center for Health, Economic, and Family Security at University of California-Berkeley. With deficit spending expected to soar in an effort to stave off an economic depression, Hacker offers the Obama Administration a strategy for getting opponents to support whatever healthcare plan he ends up proposing: Buying them off.
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Weirton (WV) Medical Center is laying off workers in an effort to save the hospital $2 million a year. The hospital is cutting 36 full-time equivalent positions. The layoffs affect union, non-union and management jobs at the hospital, including nurses and LPNs.
Officials at North Wilkesboro, NC-based Wilkes Regional Medical Center have announced that 45 positions have been eliminated in order to cut costs. According to Gene Faile, who assumed duties as the hospital's chief executive officer in early December, the restructuring is intended to improve the hospital's operating performance and secure its future prosperity.