To the editor: SEIU-United Healthcare Employees West and Mikey Vaughn, a licensed nursing assistant at Cedars-Sinai Medical Middle, need to cap the pay of healthcare executives (“Medicaid cuts reignite clash between California health worker unions, hospitals,” June 10). As a former director in finance for hospitals, I ponder if Vaughn has ever attended executive-level conferences with finance at a hospital. If he and others who share help for this measure attended, they’d see the prices of know-how, constructing codes and insurance policies, safety, staffing, regulatory calls for, meals, danger administration and the checklist goes on.
When Vaughn goes house after his shift, his work stays on the hospital. The executives are dealing 24/7 with provide chain points, emergency shutdowns and so forth. The executives are value their wage.
Let’s put this in perspective: My niece is a registered nurse at a Cedars-Sinai location. She makes $131 an hour, plus advantages and additional time. Multiply that by nevertheless many a whole bunch of nurses the hospital pays at this charge, with an incoming improve. It’s not that the nurses don’t deserve it — they do — however the executives that preserve and take all ranges of accountability for the hospital deserve their pay as effectively.
Hospitals are hurting from the One Massive Lovely Invoice Act, rising prices and monetary cuts from insurance coverage reimbursement, and so forth., and we nonetheless have to take care of the absolute best affected person care. I hope this ridiculous measure relating to government pay doesn’t move.
Amy Cavan, Los Angeles
