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Gov. Treen s veto disappoints LSU Med School officials
By DONNA O'NEAL
Journal Staff Writer
Plagued by a nursing shortage that
forced them to close 56 beds last
month, LSU Medical Center officials
Thursday were disappointed over the
governor's veto of $1.5 million from
the state budget for the hospital's
nurse recruiting efforts.
But the officials said that although
the hospital received less money than
what it had asked for, it will be able to
reopen the closed beds in a few
months, as well as recruit more than
the 25 nurses needed to put those beds
back in service.
The vetoed $1.5 million was part of
$2.7 million the hospital's local legis-lative
delegation had sought to secure
from the state to address nursing
shortages.
Though vetoing the $1.5 million
that had been given the nod by the
state Legislature, Gov. Dave Treen
Wednesday approved the remaining
$1.2 million budgeted for the hospital
— $1.1 million slated for nursing
salary increases and an additional
$154,234 earmarked for 10 more staff
positions.
In a prepared statement Thursday
afternoon, Dr. Perry G. Rigby, dean
of the LSU School of Medicine, said:
"We are pleased that the adminis-tration
approved the $1.1 million we
requested for pay increases for more
nurses and support personnel, and
(we) are naturally disappointed that
the additional $1.5 million we re-quested
to fund additional registered
nurses and support personnel was
vetoed ..."
Rigby said the hospital "will have
to make do" with the funds Treen
approved.
Last month, Rigby said the hospital
would need to recruit about 25 regis-tered
nurses to reopen the beds. Ideal-ly,
the hospital wants to recruit 100
nurses, he noted then, adding that its
current 220-nurse total is some 30
percent less than desired.
The beds closure has forced LSU to
send some of its patient load to other
local hospitals.
At Thursday's meeting, Rigby said
"We are sure that we will have 10
more (nurses) in the near future" and
10 to 15 more later. He would not
elaborate on when the "near future"
would be.
The hospital plans to extend its
nurse search — which has become a
national problem — outside the state.
Other hospital positions planned for
recruitment include medical techno-logists,
respiratory therapists, phar-macists,
phlebotomists and clerical
personnel.
The hospital has made recent
salary adjustments to make it more
competitive with other local hospi-tals,
Rigby said. LSU's starting salary
for newly graduated nurses with no
experience is $17,000.
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| Title | Gove. Treen's Veto Disappoints LSU Med School Officials |
| Creator |
O'Neal, Donna |
| Subject |
Treen, David Connor, Sr., 1928-2009 Louisiana Legislation Funding Louisiana State University Medical Center (Shreveport, La.) Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center (Shreveport, La.) |
| Publisher |
Shreveport Journal |
| Date | 1982-07-25 |
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| Source | Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Shreveport Medical Library (http://lib.sh.lsuhsc.edu) |
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| Coverage-Spatial | Shreveport (Caddo, La.) |
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