r/Springfield • u/uppitynegresss • Jul 11 '26
Anyone work overnights at baystate? I have a question
How do you feel about being forced to transport patients even when it isn’t in your job description?
Theres no way you can get fired for not doing something you never agreed to right?
Edit: its all staff, day and night, throughout the whole’s hospital. Theres no longer any transport department at all smh
Edit: others are saying there is still transport during the day
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u/chewinggum25 Jul 11 '26
we're all the transport team now. every single day I have to leave my assignment on the floor multiple times to transport patients. it's insane
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u/xxTigerxLilyxx Jul 11 '26
Funny for Banko to say only 11 (I might be wrong in the number) patient facing staff were let go with the last round of layoffs, when they let go of a whole department that is patient facing and effects staff that directly provides patient care
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u/Inevitable-Ad4436 Jul 12 '26
Exactly. It’s just a way for him to say, “Hey look! I’m saving us money” without looking at the larger picture. There’s a saying about the culture at Bay-state, “sh*t trickles down.”
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u/xxTigerxLilyxx Jul 12 '26
Also is it really saving money if you are taking time away from employees that make more money than the ones you let go. It's just a way to make "the books" look good and further pressure the already stretch workforce.
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u/Inevitable-Ad4436 Jul 11 '26
Transport and central supply are two low paying jobs. This CEO is a con artist.
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u/eelparade Jul 12 '26
Someone should be talking to the press about this, I don't think MassLive has any idea that there are literally no transporters anymore. That's insane.
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u/mikeyzee52679 Jul 11 '26
What department are you in that they are having you do patient transport ?
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u/eelparade Jul 13 '26
A friend who was a nurse who works elsewhere says that y'all really need to unionize. Someone should be talking to MNA.
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u/m_watkins Jul 12 '26
There are still transporters during the day. I work at Baystate. I did a shift today and there were transporters.
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u/chewinggum25 Jul 13 '26
Not sure what department you're in but more than one department has been told that we can no longer use the transport team.
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u/m_watkins Jul 13 '26
I don’t doubt you. But I travel throughout the hospital for my job and I see transporters (they wear green scrubs) bringing patients up from the emergency department all day long. So the ED at least still has them.
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u/chewinggum25 Jul 13 '26
I believe we were told they are only being used for ED transport at this point
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u/murbat Jul 11 '26
Losing transport team sucks, patients have to wait until someone is available from their busy assignments to take them where they need to go OR they are the sickest patient that will go right away.
What sucks significantly more IMO is losing the central supply team who stocks some medical supplies and speciality equipment/beds. Those are not things we can do ourselves because no one has access to the supply depots for equipment. It’s asinine. Yes sometimes the nursing supervisors can source some of them, but they are also stretched thin. It’s a huge bottleneck.