Staffing issues continue to plague BVIHSA - CEO
Commenting on the most critical areas that she has seen as being in need of improvement within the BVIHSA, the CEO said, “I think it’s just vast, we need to look at our workforce and start developing a strategy for staffing.”
“No, we’re not adequately staffed, I could tell you that right now,” she said while pointing out that areas such as emergency medicine and nursing were of much concern. The CEO further felt that the shortage of nurses in particular, was a worldwide phenomenon.
“Some of our support services,” she continued, “we need to do better as far as recruiting technicians, nurses, medical assistants and filling those gaps.” In addition to these, specialty areas such as cardiology, neurology and nephrology were in urgent need of being boosted.
Mrs Carty-Baptiste further spoke of aggressively looking at risk analysis, gap analysis and an audit for A&E. An assessment for the training and nursing being done at the hospital is also expected to be done.
Speaking on the issue of leadership, she noted that persons needed to be in place with a mindset to plan as if “we fail to plan then we plan to fail.”
Mrs Carty-Baptiste expressed the need to integrate the hospital with the community. She felt that it was necessary to look at evidence-based programmes to this effect and also to build collaboration with key stakeholders and also to create new partnerships with persons who had not previously been involved with the organisation.
The CEO further related the importance of Public-Private Partnerships, both within the region and by extension the entire Caribbean, and also the need to look at educational opportunities for persons as a transition was being made to the new hospital.
She added that it was also necessary to build up the leadership staff, “I really believe we have a very strong group of leaders at the helm, we just need to make sure that everyone has the ability to effectuate the change and drive the accountability throughout the organisation.”
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Do these folks do background checks or do they swallow all the garbage these folks dish out? All that glitters is not gold is a truse statement and if someone's CV looks too good then I question it. Because then where they are would be moving heaven and earth to keep them. Only in the BVI, how sad.
People in the BVI it's time to let BVIHSA know that we need better members fo staff and better quality care after all it's out tax dollars paying all those heafty salaries and then some of us have to go home and eat bread while some making 12, 000.00 per month eating steak. It's our money we deserve value for money, is that not NDP mission statement?