So I heard on the radio today that our hospital health authority hired an outsource company to make recommendations towards cost savings. They recommended to outsource laundry services as it would save tax payers money. The hospitals response was that they were not going to outsource that service. WTF?? Did they not hear the part that it would save tax payers money? This is insane to me. I would really like to know their reason why they are not taking the recommendations of the company they paid 100k for their professional opinions.
So let’s continue to pay people probably anywhere from 15 to 20 bucks (if not more) an hour to do laundry and maybe they will go on strike too and demand more money. Those people could go work for the outsource company so it wouldn’t be lost jobs. I would like an explanation as to why this recommendation is being declined on behalf of the tax payers! Is this health authority looking out for the taxpayer?? I think not. —Sick of These Authorities Making Poor Decisions with My Tax Money
This article appears in Mar 1-7, 2012.
I almost agreed with you, right up until the whole they wouldn’t be lost jobs thing. Yeah, just do your job for minimum wage all of a sudden. Fuck you.
One word: unions.
There’s a massive laundry plant over in Woodside responsible for all the laundry for the hospitals in the city. I’m not sure how far out of HRM it extends, but it cleans a helluva lot of dirty sheets. I don’t believe it’s as easy as you think to just outsource several tons of laundry.
If we are paying $100000 for a cost savings recommendation, then we damn well better listen to what they have to say and act on it.
Our government needs to cut costs.
Fools thinking that people who do laundry should be getting $20 an hour with benefits are the problem.
Cutting costs means getting rid of government overpaid positions.
Give me $1000 and access to your accounting. I’ll cut your damn costs. Oh wait… I already did.
hospitals always sent their linen and shit out years back. when i used to work at the n.s.hospital laundry, we used to do it from all over n.s.
they only started doing their own about 15 years or so ago. and then they found the costs a little too high. machines, personel to use them, and of course the space to put them in. it was all at a cost, to them, and ultimately us taxpayers. maybe they should go back to the old way. it was picked up and dropped off by a guy in the hospital cube van, andd he could put quite the load of shit in that thing. so yeah, let them send that stuff out, it would be cheaper, what with all the cutbacks coming this year.
that is the place you were talking about captain.
i think the electricity would cost a pretty penny. do they get a break on power bills? since it’s a hospital. i wonder what hotels do? when i worked in ontario, it was done on site. i know even the smallest places will outsource when it comes to towels, dog groomers, come to mind
Yeah, I think so. It’s over by the Nova Scotia Hospital. Its got a big steam stack coming out of the building. They actually pipe all the excess steam underground to the NSCC next door. They recover the heat and circulate it through the building.
I would also like to know what the cost savings are. I would think the oursourced company would have done a cost analysis.
When they outsourced the linen services at my school, OB, they laid off everyone who worked there. When the private company took over, it invited the employees to do their same jobs at half the pay, no benefits (that means health insurance in the US) and no union representation. If the laid off employees refused the job, the company informed UI, and they lost their unemployment benefits as well.
Learn from the states’ fail, OB. This outsourcing plan sounds penny-wise and pounds foolish.
Just because you hire somebody to do recommendations doesn’t mean you have to take them. You take the information provided and see what recommendations are doable. Maybe some recommendations they will act on.
How about a consultants report on whether it makes more sense to continually hire consultants or to hire somebody smart enough to run an organization efficiently in the first fucking place?
Id think the 10 DHA’s would be a much better place for the province to save money on Health care – that is 10 CEOs, 50 or 60 VPs, all those directors, all the support staff – that is a lot more than $8 million – out of a budget of 3,768 BILLION. Goddamn fucking pinkos can’t cut government, even in the dire situation we are in!! Fuck get rid of these jerk-offs at province house, please!
We outsource some of our laundry and it is from that business in Dartmouth. We have all kinds of problems with late deliveries, which puts extreme pressure on our laundry staff. I’m sure our laundry staff could tell many horror stories about this outsourced laundry. From a major nursing home in Halifax.
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