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Jackson, Tennessee hospital let their MTs go, too - Kate Mtee

Posted: May 29, 2010

West Tennessee Healthcare in Jackson, Tennessee let all of their MTs go too (end of last year). They now outsource 100 percent of their dictation.

This is nothing new. - It happens all the time - nm

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no offense but where do you think our work comes from? NM - just wondering

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Most hospitals these days do outsource to MTSOs don't they? - I thought they did

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In a not really so related question, isn't Jackson, TN a depressed area right now? Aren't they having severe economic problems? It's possible that their hospital is having trouble as well as just wanting to outsource to MTSOs.

Oddly every hospital I've worked at has had a backup MTSO - Curious

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I'd never really thought much about it, but every hospital I've worked at (200+ beds) has usually had an assortment of former MTs lined up to work from home or have signed a deal with the devil (MQ) to provide backup services.

I'd never really given it much thought before but, yeah. The last hospital I worked for had MQ lined up to provide backup services after usual hours (3rd shift) and holidays/weekends. The last hospital I worked for that contracted with them was about 6-7 years ago, though. My most recent in-house experience had a series of gals from K-Force that they privately contracted with to do the overflow, though, no Q.

They do seem to manage to insinuate their sweaty hands into every little cookie jar they can find, don't they?

Hospitals do this because they do not want - anon

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to pay benefits. Most of the time the benefits equal or are more than the hourly wage, plus the hospital does not have to provide their own equipment and also need less space. The benefits really do amount to quite a bit per hour per employee, less than it costs to outsource everything.

So wouldnt you think, if theyre saving all that overhead - by using an MTSO, it wouldnt - sm

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be so imperative that they get it done at rock-bottom rates, that they'd be willing to settle for the slipshod quality of so many of the big MTSOs?

And of course, the MTSOs have helped to make that happen by getting into bidding wars, thus forcing themselves to chop employee benefits and pay, in order to continue to make their big bucks.

GREED, GREED, GREED.

I think hospitals got much better quality work done when they kept an in-house MT department, and only used the MTSO for overflow work, thus being able to use higher-quality, smaller MTSOs.

Once again, the McMTSO's have shot everyone, including themselves, in the foot.

LOSERS.

take it one step further --- imagine the savings (sm) - willworkforfood

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if they just did away with the MTSOs and hired MTs direct to work at home on production....

They could pay out less per line and we'd still be makine more per line - not to mention no hanky-panky with the lines counts.

why, I might even respect myself again! Imagine that....

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