Linda Thompson Quotes on Medicine & Medical (2 Quotes)

Management has cut staff, brought in temp workers and slashed our wages and benefits, ... We deal with extremely sick people in need of the cleanest, most sterile environment and food made to their exact nutritional needs. This is a not a fast-food type of setting. When you work in a hospital, it requires a special skill set -- we need to know our jobs or else the patients will suffer. It becomes tougher every day to encourage our dedicated co-workers to stick around, because of the lack of a contract, and the cuts to our wages and benefits.

We're in the top 1 locally and 3 nationally in patient satisfaction and we didn't want to leave that to chance so we wanted to have a consistent program that everybody knew what was expected of them.