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cjrecordvt t1_j5yw8mp wrote

Reply to comment by Jerry_Williams69 in Teacher moving to VT by thebaerfetus

> Not sure why medical facilities fight raises for staff nurses so hard, but then turn around and pay travelers $4000-$5000 a week like it is nothing.

Hearsay and based on sources I don't have links for am, but if you increase base staff pay, that comes out of shareholder dividends. If you're having to "emergency allocate" budget for travelers, your hospital is eligible for compensation from DC.

I don't know how accurate it is, but it's the kind of fucked-the-fuck up that makes sense in the last, oh, forty years or so.

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likesflatsoda t1_j5zcp4u wrote

But most hospitals are nonprofits and have no shareholders?

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cjrecordvt t1_j5zg5nj wrote

In Vermont, they're all non-profit. In the US as a whole, about a quarter are for-profit.

Even in the case of non-profits, I'd look at the c-suite compensation packages with questions.

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Mallard_a4_Thoth t1_j616le6 wrote

The New York Times podcast called The Daily just did an expose of several "non-profit" hospital systems around the country. Lots of them actually make huge profits for their parent companies and routinely charge high bills to patients they legally aren't supposed to charge at all. It's really a racket.

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