Urgent Care
Dr. Gregory Gibb, president of the Humboldt-Del Norte Independent Practice Association, said he’s heard a lot of talk in recent weeks from nurses weighing their options. The sentiment he’s detected “between the lines” is that nurses are nervous about the drop in business at Mad River and have decided that “they’re gonna go with a safer ship.”
Neither Gibb nor Small expect this exodus to bring Mad River’s OR to a halt, however. Small suggested that they can use traveling nurses, or perhaps hire some of the 150 medical workers fired from Redding’s Shasta Regional Medical Center last month. In their statement, MRCH said that more than half the nurses who are leaving will remain available part-time or on-call.
Gibb takes MRCH death rumors with a grain of salt. “People have been predicting the demise of Mad River for 24 years,” he said. “I’ll believe it when I see it.” Besides, he said, if the caseload has really dropped so drastically, how many nurses do they need?
Despite leaving — or perhaps because of it — Small is now even more concerned about the future of MRCH. The community needs both hospitals, she said, especially given St. Joe’s Catholic scruples, which prevent them from offering the full spectrum of women’s health services.
“I certainly hope Mad River survives,” Small said. “It’s a wonderful little hospital.”
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