I'm a social worker working at a small medical center. The medical center was purchased by a large corporate outfit last fall. We used to do all this alternative medicine stuff and we were very successful at healing the disease we specialize in. Many of my clients have had a miraculous recoveries.
So this large corporate outfit buys us from the original owners. The new owners are all like we're not gonna change a thing and everything will be the same. But slowly they've been changing the hours and the program structure and changing everything. More importantly one of the new staff who is from corporate left their email account open. One of the old staff hopped on the email thinking it was theirs and discovered that there was an email describing in detail their plan for turning us into just another McDonald's franchise. (Metaphorical speaking)
Email described in detail how they were going to fire expensive medical providers at our clinic and replace them with other people who are much less licensed and less qualified for less money. The most interesting part about it for me is how much their cynicism drives there choices. They come from an industry that is very unsuccessful at helping people and they take over a clinic that is very successful at helping people. They literally can't see what they're destroying.
I have given notice 3 times. The 1st time because I was clear where this was going and I saw no need to stick around and watch it devolve. They asked me to stay because they need my licensure at the clinic. The 2nd time I just said You are not paying me enough for me to be here and they gave me a $9 raise.
I thought perhaps I could bring a little bit of the alternative to the mainstream or is maybe try to teach the these corporate types to be kind and generous. I have now decided that I am in some way endorsing the dismantling of this thing I love and it's time for me to leave rather than get caught up in feeling responsible for the mess they're making.
Over the last 30 days the name of profits the quality of care that clients are receiving has fallen by at least 50% and I expect with me leaving it will fall by another 50%. Of course clients usually come in for a short time and so there is very little awareness and understanding of how much the quality of care is falling.
In particular the new owners in an attempt to increase profitability have started bringing sicker and sicker people. So that not only is the standard of care falling but the likelihood of someone being way more sick than we are prepared to treat as far greater. We are residential facility and not a hospital. Then senior owners arrived we'd have had far more clients who should probably be in a hospital setting and then transfer to our setting.
The idea that is the idea that profit driven yeast driven medical care is being practiced in the United States is insane.