00:00All right, as always, you can go to YouTube channel My Medical Nightmare and see 40 plus
00:07hours video on everything that happened to me.
00:09All right, huge article out of Michigan Public, NPR National Public Radio, based out of Ann
00:18Arbor and the University of Michigan.
00:21Ascension staff petition for safety precautions amid ransomware attack.
00:27More than 100 people have signed a petition circulating among medical staff at Ascension
00:35Providence Rochester Hospital during the ongoing fallout from the ransomware cyber attack that
00:43hit Ascension May 8, 2024.
00:48The date on this report is May 27.
00:50Michigan Public writes, doctors and nurses throughout the state have been raising serious concerns
00:56about the impact of patient care.
00:59They still don't have access to patients' medical records.
01:02Safety protocols intended to reduce the risk of medication errors have been temporarily
01:08removed or disabled.
01:10Crucial lab and test results are taking hours or getting lost completely.
01:16And elective surgeries and patient transfers are still happening despite some staff's concerns.
01:23There's some real revelations in this petition language.
01:27It reads, we the members of Local 40 at Ascension Providence Rochester Hospital are deeply concerned
01:35about the current challenges faced by our healthcare professionals due to the cyber hack incident and
01:42subsequent lack of access to patients' electronic medical records.
01:47We demand that immediate safety precautions be implemented to ensure the well-being of both our members and the patients
01:56under our care.
01:58They want to implement daily unit shift huddles to ensure effective communication coordination and information sharing among healthcare professionals regarding
02:09patient care safety protocols and any emerging issues.
02:12It looks like Ascension is keeping staff in the dark on things.
02:17My own dealings as a patient with Ascension, highly compartmentalized.
02:22This goes for the mini-me outfits as well.
02:26You can see in some of the reviews of these places, the different levels of staff and management are not
02:32privy to what the other levels are doing.
02:36They don't share information.
02:38It's a need-to-know basis.
02:40This is a sign of high corruption.
02:42I ran into this in my own case.
02:44You go to their emergency department, your self-pay, no insurance, and they may tell you that you have a
02:51neck muscle pulled when in reality you broke your skull and had a life-threatening injury such as myself.
02:58Then after you spend a couple tens of thousands of dollars or something, they'll come back and give you a
03:04proper diagnosis.
03:07Each injury that you take into a hospital or doctor, they've got a price tag in their mind for how
03:13much it's going to take for them to tell you the truth about your injury and give you proper service.
03:21The petitioners are also asking for regular training sessions for staff members to enhance their knowledge and skills in navigating
03:31the challenges posed by the ongoing cyber hack.
03:34What this tells me is that Ascension and all their wisdom and $18 billion of cash reserves did not have
03:43a contingency plan in place, set up, and ready to implement to deal with this current crisis.
03:50You can see in my video I put up yesterday, the big shot doctors, millionaire doctors, and administrators, they're heaping
03:59the responsibility and risk on the lower level staff, including staff that don't have proper medical credentials.
04:08They're asking nurses who don't have training in a certain area to go and do jobs they don't know how
04:14to do.
04:14This stuff should be against the law.
04:16Back to the petition.
04:18They want Ascension to provide weekly progress reports to update staff members on the status of efforts to resolve the
04:28cyber hack incident, restore access to electronic medical records, and address any safety concerns or staffing issues.
04:37The petitioners are asking Ascension to maintain a maximum 4 to 1 nurse to patient ratio until the matter is
04:45fully resolved to ensure that patients receive the level of care and attention they require.
04:52All right, so here the staff are drawing attention to the fact that because of all the chaos from the
04:59cyber attack disrupting the just-in-time management system in place, they now don't have adequate nursing staff to tend
05:09to the patients.
05:10And in the best of times, prior to this cyber attack, you can see where Ascension already had staffing shortages.
05:19It's down to choice in order to streamline their business and profits.
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