I got an extention on our “flower bed situation” until Aug. 19th. It’s been raining nonstop for 2 months it seems so if I can get a nice day, then the lawn guy can come. It’s suppose to happen Monday and Tuesday. I just found out Avery’s friends’ dad is starting a lawn care business so he’s gonna come over to give me a quote. If he can beat out this high school kid I hired, then I’ll contract him. We decided it would be easier to just put down mulch again and then put back the rock around the edge of the beds.
Work has been a little stressful lately. Ok, let me start from the beginning and try to make a long story short and understandable. KW (Kingwood) used to have group of OB/GYN md’s called Care for Women practice at the facility. Well, a few years ago CFW (Care for Women) pulled out and moved all their business to Northeast Hospital just down the road. NE was bought out by Memorial Herman and there was talk about Memorial Herman buying a surgery center and letting CFW use that to do all their gynecology surgeries there. Well, MH (Memorial Herman) didn’t follow through just yet with their promise and haven’t bought the surgery center just yet, upsetting all the CFW md’s. So now CFW wants to come back to KW, where I work. We are not equiped to double or triple the load of patients they would be bringing to us, nor do we have the staff. So this week our CEO went to propose a plan to the bank so that we could redesign and extend out neonatal nursery and also revamp a vacant unit for all of the gyne patients. We would have to rebuild another OB surgery suite for our c-sections and add more labor rooms as well. So much rides on if we can get the funding and remember, KW is just finishing up a multimillion dollar 3 story addition. No funding=No CFW. IF all goes through however, we will need to double our staff and until we do that, no vacation requests will be approved. That is where I’m most upset. I don’t care that I’ll have to work on a different wing separate from L&D from time to time (the post partum nurses will rotate between gyn and post partum). But I do care that I can’t even go back to see my family over the holidays. My boss says KW has a policy that no one can take vacation between Thanksgiving and New Year’s. I don’t know how true that really is but it’s not right and I’m upset about it. So that’s what going down at KW. There have been rumors that NE DID purchase the surgery center so CFW may back out from coming to KW again too. Alot rides on alot of different things. One hour we hear one thing and the next we hear another. I don’t know what to believe but everyone higher up is stressed over it.
