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Do any of you work on a Saturday?
Some of the bean counters at my work decided to start a Saturday clinic for speech, occupational, and physical therapies. There is talk about slowly adding primary care, dental, and specialties. They're also considering adding, you guessed it, behavioral health. The logic is that we might be able to capture some of the market and decrease the burden of missing school.
But, there are some serious flaws: Most of out patients are medicaid - meaning that one or both of the parents are not really employed. The one's that do work usually work nights and weekends. Assuming that patients want to come in on a weekend, when their friends are off and they have to miss sports, etc.
When the launched it with the therapies, they really didn't give them a choice. However, they're just all gonna do like one Saturday a month. Management pitched it like they were going to hire a new person for Saturdays, but there is a hiring freeze.
I also just can't do it. My wife often has to work on a Saturday (she does lab stuff) and it's just not fair to my kid. Plus, it'd be a huge burden to my family and having to find a babysitter/childcare.
I know I am catastrophizing this a little, but it might be the last straw.
Some of the bean counters at my work decided to start a Saturday clinic for speech, occupational, and physical therapies. There is talk about slowly adding primary care, dental, and specialties. They're also considering adding, you guessed it, behavioral health. The logic is that we might be able to capture some of the market and decrease the burden of missing school.
But, there are some serious flaws: Most of out patients are medicaid - meaning that one or both of the parents are not really employed. The one's that do work usually work nights and weekends. Assuming that patients want to come in on a weekend, when their friends are off and they have to miss sports, etc.
When the launched it with the therapies, they really didn't give them a choice. However, they're just all gonna do like one Saturday a month. Management pitched it like they were going to hire a new person for Saturdays, but there is a hiring freeze.
I also just can't do it. My wife often has to work on a Saturday (she does lab stuff) and it's just not fair to my kid. Plus, it'd be a huge burden to my family and having to find a babysitter/childcare.
I know I am catastrophizing this a little, but it might be the last straw.