What’s next for PWHS employees and the community after yesterday’s announcement?
Thanks to all of the concerned citizens and employees who have given us so much attention and expressed their willingness to help and spread the word over the past 24 hours. If you haven’t already, please read the other two articles on this blog as well as the comments that have been made.
Special thanks to those who have provided the links and info about PWHS’s “merger” partner Novant and VERY special thanks to our family, friends, current associates and founding members who helped us break this story just 20 minutes after they were informed and the Friday morning directors and managers meeting concluded.
Learn about Novant:
http://www.novanthealth.org/job_information/
A lot more on Novant jobs, soon. In the meantime...
If you ask any merger related questions, try to do so in front of others and document the time and place and nature of your inquiries and who you spoke to. If you have a coworker asking questions, make a note of this, also recording the time and place, content and people involved.
This is just the beginning... but time will pass quickly and the time to act is now....
Stay tuned and subscribe for updates on where to go and who are good people to voice your opinion to, we'll need all of Manassas to get involved if we're going to keep TRUE local control and evict the absentee landlords and weak leadership who are selling us out and have lead us into this situation.
The special report on Executive Employment Agreements, Severance Packages and Stay Bonuses is coming soon, but for now if you pass by a PWHS exec be sure to ask what YOU will get if your position will not be a permanent fixture after a merger and transition is complete. Ask how much of Novant's proposed $200 million investment will go toward taking care of YOU and your family and benefits, since millions of it will be already set aside and going to the executive golden parachutes that are already in place and will be part of the agreement to merge.
http://www2.journalnow.com/content/2009/mar/28/novant-enters-virginia-market-through-merger/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/27/AR2009032702937.html
Knowledge is power... pass this on to your friends, coworkers or anyone with a stake in Prince William...
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hey people, I just wrote this to the Manassas council and other local leaders, we all need to let them know what we already do and how we feel!
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Good evening, your Honor and esteemed council. Myself and a group
of PWHS employees are concerned about the "merger" or "partnership"
(we consider it a sale) to a North Carolina and we'd like to see our
community leaders address this.
While we feel it is a good start that there will still be a local
board in and the name will remain Prince William if the merger is
approved, we still believe some local jobs are at risk and we should
be able to exist and thrive on our own. No matter what concessions
are made on the local level, we will still be controlled by this
out-of-state organization, who naturally will be interested in
recovering its 200 million dollar investment, and we do not want to
see local jobs and families beholden to the North Carolina
stakeholders.
Links to articles as well as opinions from employees can be found here:
www.savepwhs.blogspot.com
We truly believe that PWHS can thrive and expand locally, like INOVA
to our north and Medicorp to our south, and the only reason we have
not and can not currently is because the current hospital leadership
has had no plan other to sell for the past ten years.
If this will ever be addressed in public, please let us know and
provide us the opportunity to write-in our opinions. We are all
deathly afraid of losing our jobs and although we are passionate about
this, we can not risk our livliehood by speaking in public about it at
this point since there would be reprisals from hospital executives.
Thanks for your time and attention.
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ReplyDeleteThe Winston-Salem view can be found here: http://www2.journalnow.com/content/2009/mar/28/novant-enters-virginia-market-through-merger/business/
ReplyDeleteA line I find of interest: "Our leaders were familiar with their leaders, so when they started looking for a partner, we came up quickly as a possibility," he said. "Most health-care systems want that kind of commitment in a merger."
What kind of commitment is that exactly? A couple of good ol' boys rubbing elbows, making deals behind closed doors? This line clearly implies that this agreement has an underlying personal motive. A few friends helping each other out with consequences for our entire county! Oh, to have friends in high places!
And what about this? "Certainly Novant can offer system infrastructure and billing and collection resources, along with professional resources to improve efficiency and quality of operations."
Ummm... hello!!! PWH already has billing and collections resources. Once upon a time they had their own Patient Billing Office - before Schwartz sold them off. They have an entire department dedicated to capturing appropriate charges and tracking their revenue. What is going to happen to those employees when Novant introduces their "infrastructure"??? Another outsourcing? Are we going to see our friends, families and neighbors have their jobs sold to people in North Caroline?
This whole scheme just doesn't sit right. Maybe Schwartz is just trying to salvage what's left of his retirement money, surely his 401(k) is suffering like everyone else's. But do we really need to ruin the integrity of a community institution so one man can try to save face? I don't think so.
does anyone no if patient access will lose jobs? my wife is working there for 5 years. she has our kids on her insurance so i need to no. she was supposed to get a raise last month but they don't do that naymore like they used to. if anyone nos who to talk to about who is losing jobs please put it on here or tell the people working there.
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