And then there were none.

[Jolly]

Largest hospital in the area, as of this week, let all of their contract nurses go.

Every. One.

Good-bye.

Now, that's interesting...

[Mik]

The pendulum continues to swing.

[Horace]

Not a great time to be getting old.

[George K]

"Contract nurses."

These are the locum tenens nurses, right?

Which hospital, Ochsner?

[taiwan_girl]

@jolly Do they have any nurses anymore?

[Jolly]

@George-K said in And then there were none.:

"Contract nurses."

These are the locum tenens nurses, right?

Which hospital, Ochsner?

Nah, nothing that big.

https://rapidesregional.com/

But I heard they had 200 nursing jobs open when the ax fell on the travelers.

[Jolly]

What's interesting...A lot of the contract guys are local. They left this hospital and other area hospitals during COVID, to chase the highest dollar. Some worked all over the U.S. Some stayed at home and signed up with staffing agencies, working hospitals in the area.

RR is a HCA facility (one of the bigger ones, I think). I suspect the bean-counters had had enough, and as Mik says, the pendulum is starting to swing.

[Mik]

They will try to hire, and they'll be somewhat successful. They'll staff up until a bean counter notices that their personnel costs have risen dramatically - from the point right after they let the contractors go. Then the cycle starts over again. I've seen it a hundred times. It's a function of the short-sightedness of bean counters and other management critters, who much show movement even if it's in the wrong direction.