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Inside the medical tent, Beth dug through medical supplies meant for sprained ankles and sunburns. “We’ll get some officers over here.”įour times the bullets returned. He knew terrorists sometimes moved to hospitals to cause the most damage. “I’m worried somebody’s going to come here and start shooting at us,” Menes told a police officer. Hospital transporters brought every gurney and wheelchair they could find downstairs, and Menes pointed them outside, to the two curved drives that led to the ER’s sliding doors.Īs preparations locked into place, the rumors of a mass shooting ricocheted through the hospital: At first there was one shooter, then two. MacIntyre directed six surgical residents there to stand ready. “I need every operating room open,” Menes said. Dave MacIntyre, put crash carts in the trauma bays, four curtained-off areas that took up two walls in the ER.ĭoctors in place, Menes found a secretary at the front desk and told her to call every surgeon and scrub tech she could find. Menes sent the other ER doctors to the diagnostic area, a group of half-rooms just behind the waiting room. A doctor outside could filter through waves of patients and ensure a hospital’s resources went to the most critically injured. But he learned that the most important position was at the front door. He thought that was the most important place to be.
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As a medical resident in Detroit he worked a Super Bowl, stationed in a room that would fill with victims if terrorists struck. Menes decided he would stand in front of the hospital, where the life-and-death decisions would be made. Friends at the hospital grew used to hearing him talk about mass casualties and trauma and triage. He quizzed his emergency response team and built plans in his mind. Theirs was a city of crowds, of festivals and concerts and other targets of terrorism, and he wanted his response to be automatic. They don’t have to be in negotiations for two years,” she said of HCA.Ĭontact Pashtana Usufzy at or 70.For years Menes had imagined these moments. Rose was “kicked out” of the coalition’s in-network providers group, but it rejoined this year. He was apparently referring to a dispute between the coalition and Dignity Health – St.
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“Their last negotiations with a local health care provider went on for two years,” he said. He added that HCA already agreed to one contract extension and does not want to continue negotiations indefinitely. Neither Culinary union spokeswoman Bethany Khan nor Rob Dyer, senior vice president of strategy and development for HCA’s Far West Division, could confirm that figure. They’ve been unwilling to come down on their asking,” said picket Tommy Blitsch, principal officer of Teamsters 631.īlitsch, who said he was at the failed negotiation meeting, was one of several pickets who have heard they could face a 6 percent to 7 percent overall rate hike on services. “We’ve been trying to get something done in good faith, and they’ve been unwilling to grant an extension. If a new agreement is not reached or an extension is not negotiated, the three hospitals and four HCA-owned surgical care clinics would be out of network for the nearly 275,000 Southern Nevadans represented by the coalition.
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The Health Services Coalition, which negotiates health plans for 20 organizations including the Culinary Health Fund, Clark County and Las Vegas firefighters, is scheduled to meet Monday with HCA to negotiate what they hope will be a three- to four-year contract by midnight Feb. The group, made up of mostly Culinary union members, was protesting what they say are stall tactics and an unfair health care services rate hike demanded by the Hospital Corporation of America, which owns Sunrise, MountainView and Southern Hills hospitals.Ībout 500 people were expected to picket, but an exact number was not immediately available. Fuentes/Las Vegas Review-JournalĪ steady stream of pickets marched along the sidewalk Thursday evening in front of Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center, drawing honks while shouting “Sunrise sucks.” Members protested and voiced their displeasure toward Hospital Corporation of America, which owns three local hospitals including Sunrise, for refusing to extend a deadline for health care contract negotiations. Health Services Coalition members picket at Sunrise Hospital in Las Vegas on Thursday, Feb.