I once worked at a hospital in the ER where the department director was a union-busting bastard, but the CEO was pretty reasonable. After I left, one of the other ER techs went to the CEO about our pay being messed up and got everyone $5-6/hour raises to actual market rate. Also, there were a few weeks when we were really understaffed that the hospital encouraged admin folks to volunteer as "candystripers" in the ER to do stuff like help clean/turn over rooms, and answer patient call lights for water, blankets, etc. And the CEO was down in the ER for a couple hours every evening helping out most of that time period. It was encouraging to see the CEO of the hospital putting on some gloves and helping us with basic stuff like cleaning and stocking.

[–] problematicPanther@lemmy.world 77 points 10 months ago (4 children)

to me, just the thought of having a CEO for a hospital is enough to put a bad taste in my mouth though.

[–] medgremlin@lemmy.sdf.org 45 points 10 months ago

It was a legitimately nonprofit hospital and he probably was overpaid, but at least he was a practicing physician at one point and did seem to give a damn about his staff.

[–] EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Hospitals still need an executive for decision making. Could be a president or ceo. It’s “for profit” that’s going to reverse the incentives and run the whole thing.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Good point. He earns exponentially more than anyone else in the hospital yet he can do whatever he wants. If he feels like being a candy-striper today for a few minutes, great. Then he can do whatever he wants after that. He's not stuck doing one repetitive job day in and day out. He can do whatever he wants and earn exponential amount of money. How did he even get in that position?

[–] A_Toasty_Strudel@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Family connections most commonly.

[–] Encode1307@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Is lemmy made up of 15 year olds? You think a hospital can run itself with no one in charge? The comments on this thread are amazing.

[–] problematicPanther@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ceo implies it's a for profit institution. Director, director general, overseer, those are titles appropriately here. CEO is a title of a corporation.

[–] Encode1307@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

Nope, nonprofits have CEOs too. Especially nonprofit hospitals.

[–] ghost_of_faso2@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Why do you think a company without a CEO would be without anyone in charge? Can you only imagine something running if a single person has executive control of an org?