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Several health system CEOs and leadership members are forgoing or donating pay during the COVID-19 outbreak as systems face furloughing workers due to low revenue.

It is the latest bid by hospital systems to stay afloat financially as low patient volume and cancellation of elective procedures have plummeted revenues.

Here are some of the system CEOs and leaders that have donated their pay:

• A large hospital network in New York City, announced last week that CEO, and the system’s leadership team will take a 50% pay cut “for as long as necessary so that these dollars can be directed to our front lines in this fight,” a statement said.  


• Erlanger Health System, a seven-hospital system in Tennessee and North Carolina, announced March 30 it is reducing leadership pay in addition to furloughing some administrative employees, suspending 403(b) retirement contributions and stopping vacation accruals.


• The CEO of Cape Cod Healthcare System, a two-hospital network in Massachusetts, will donate his monthly salary of $78,000 for April to the system’s resources, according to a report in Boston Business Journal. CEO Michael Lauf told the journal that the system plans to keep paying workers for the next two weeks and will not be doing furloughs yet.


• Major hospital system HCA Healthcare, which has 184 hospitals across the country, announced that CEO Sam Hazen will donate his April and May salary to a fund intended to help employees weather a reduction in hours.


• Beth Israel Lahey, a 12-hospital system in Massachusetts, also will have its CEO take a 50% pay cut and the rest of the leadership team a 20% cut, according to a report in NPR.

Jobs...

The Governors of some States are consumed by fear of the viruses impact, paralyzing their labor force.  The Mom and Pop shops, and the little people with small busniss, etc.. While Amazon, Walmart, Target and the likes are selling every thing, those who have small shops are non essential!!

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Before the coronavirus crisis, three of New York City’s largest commercial tenants  Barclays, JP Morgan Chase and Morgan Stanley  had tens of thousands of workers in towers across Manhattan. Now, as the city wrestles with when and how to reopen, executives at all three firms have decided that it is highly unlikely that all their workers will ever return to those buildings.

The research firm Nielsen has arrived at a similar conclusion. Even after the crisis has passed, its 3,000 workers in the city will no longer need to be in the office full-time and can instead work from home most of the week.

The real estate company Halstead has 32 branches across the city and region. But its chief executive, who now conducts business over video calls, is mulling reducing its footprint.

But now, as the pandemic eases its grip, companies are considering not just how to safely bring back employees, but whether all of them need to come back at all. 

They were forced by the crisis to figure out how to function productively with workers operating from home — and realized unexpectedly that it was not all bad.

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Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers (D) late Wednesday denounced the state Supreme Court's decision to side with Republican legislators and strike down the extension of his stay-at-home order, saying the ruling would throw the state into "chaos" and lead to a spike in coronavirus cases. 

 Evers said, shortly after the decision was released. "We worked really hard to stay at home and do all the right things around social distancing and so on and so forth."

Wisconsin's public health department has reported more than 10,900 confirmed cases of COVID-19, and 421 deaths from it. 

Evers had begun to lift certain restrictions put in place at the outset of the outbreak. Earlier this week, he announced retail shopping in standalone locations or strip malls could open allowing for five customers at time. Just a thought.

Wisconsin's unemployment rate in March was 3.4 percent, 1.0 percent lower than the national rate of 4.4 percent.

Area: 65,498 mi²

Population: 5.822 million.

Goats...

Apparently no longer content to shelter-in-place, roughly 200 goats busted out of their enclosure and briefly ran loose through a San Jose neighborhood Tuesday evening.

The goats came from an enclosure on a hill in the Silver Creek neighborhood, said Roelands. They are brought in once a year for a few days to clear the hillside brush.

We got to do the same. Just a thought.

Fog...

Constant worry about the virus has become an uninvited guest into our quarantine—and it’s really only being amplified by the fact that we can’t connect with others outside of video chat, we’re grappling with the fear being laid off or making ends meet after being laid off, and our routines at large have been upended.

Anxiety takes a lot of mental juice, and in the time of COVID-19, our brains are running on fumes. Research from 2018 found a direct link between anxiety and fatigue, while older research from 2011 found a lack of focus in “high-anxiety individuals“—and this research happened during time periods when the collective wasn’t facing a pandemic.

“When people are at home and they feel restricted, that can make someone low-energy and even depressed. That’s what we’ve been seeing in some of our patients—especially people with a history of depression or anxiety.”