1-800-Healthcare Mismanagement, Can I Help You?

This just in kids.

Local hospital downtime for their pharmacy module. This would be the system that manages all the pharmacological needs of the hospital. 400 beds, so not huge but not small either. Downtime started at 1:30 this afternoon. It went on for at least 2 hours, it could still be going on...anyways, here's the deal.

That organization canceled a project that was weeks away from completing delivery of a replacement Pharmacy system.

Now, I could get into the malignant financials that they screw around, er, manage with - like using capital project funds to prop up chronically under-funded operational areas - but I think it enough to point out that the reported cost of prematurely shutting down the replacement project cost about the same amount as completing it.

You know, so that they would have stable pharmacy system, that wouldn't go out, say, the day after remembrance day.