INOVA closes Urgent Care Centers -Tysons, North Arlington, Reston

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

...struggling with limited staffing and a rising numbers of patients...

NP. So if the number of patients incease, you decrease the number of treatment centers? That's like closing fire houses because there are too many fires. Just have fewer fires? The article even mentions these are are not emergency room type or covid related visits. So, now, a skinned knee needs the emergency room. Hire some more people.

If they don't have people applying for these healthcare positions -- and that is a frequent theme right now for obvious reasons -- then how are they supposed to hire them?

They can't just bake up a batch of healthcare providers, like gingerbread people in an oven.

Offer better pay? Offer other accomodations.

Seriously? After a year and a half of pandemic, health care workers are exhausted and burned out. The “accommodation” their employer can offer is fewer hours so they can get some rest, but that leads to staffing shortages like this.

What they really need is for people to stop acting like fecking idiots, get vaxxed, wear masks, and don’t take needless risks that keep driving up the COVID rates.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

...struggling with limited staffing and a rising numbers of patients...

NP. So if the number of patients incease, you decrease the number of treatment centers? That's like closing fire houses because there are too many fires. Just have fewer fires? The article even mentions these are are not emergency room type or covid related visits. So, now, a skinned knee needs the emergency room. Hire some more people.

If they don't have people applying for these healthcare positions -- and that is a frequent theme right now for obvious reasons -- then how are they supposed to hire them?

They can't just bake up a batch of healthcare providers, like gingerbread people in an oven.

Offer better pay? Offer other accomodations.

Seriously? After a year and a half of pandemic, health care workers are exhausted and burned out. The “accommodation” their employer can offer is fewer hours so they can get some rest, but that leads to staffing shortages like this.

What they really need is for people to stop acting like fecking idiots, get vaxxed, wear masks, and don’t take needless risks that keep driving up the COVID rates.

Exactly.

And there is a limit to "offer better pay," too. That is why businesses close, earlier PP. Because they run out of money.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am not following your theory. Could you try rewriting it a bit more clearly?

OP here. The article mentioned the 3 closing and the fact that those 3 are near primary care doctors when all the 8 sites are near primary care doctors. Urgent cares are convenient if you can't get an appointment at your primary care doctor. INOVA Urgent care website:
https://www.inova.org/our-services/inova-urgent-care/frequently-asked-questions

See What’s the Difference Between Urgent Care and the Emergency Room (ER) and the costs. Note how many people go to an ER when the condition should be seen in an urgent care or primary v an ER. Older article on ER use https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhsr/nhsr090.pdf

If people on medicaid or uninsured used the Reston site will they now go to more expensive Reston Hospital ER?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am not following your theory. Could you try rewriting it a bit more clearly?

OP here. The article mentioned the 3 closing and the fact that those 3 are near primary care doctors when all the 8 sites are near primary care doctors. Urgent cares are convenient if you can't get an appointment at your primary care doctor. INOVA Urgent care website:
https://www.inova.org/our-services/inova-urgent-care/frequently-asked-questions

See What’s the Difference Between Urgent Care and the Emergency Room (ER) and the costs. Note how many people go to an ER when the condition should be seen in an urgent care or primary v an ER. Older article on ER use https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhsr/nhsr090.pdf

If people on medicaid or uninsured used the Reston site will they now go to more expensive Reston Hospital ER?

OP, you need to lay off the caffeine!!

You're acting a little crazy. There are a lot of non-INOVA urgent cares in the area that you can go to, this is not some big conspiracy to make people go to the ER. Hospitals don't want overcrowded ERs either.

[Anonymous]

I went to the INOVA Urgent Care in Tysons… only once, and never again, because it took them four hours to see me and the waiting room was relatively empty. This was before COVID.

TBH, our pediatrician offers weekend care and I can always call my insurance’s nurse line if it’s a Sunday. Also, there are quite a few urgent care facilities (at least in Tysons).