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Posted on May 27 at 10:36 p.m.

Why are there no African-American transcriptionists at St. Elizabeth Hospital?

On Group purchases site for cancer center

Posted on April 18 at 11:36 a.m.

I've used the "suggest removal" links several times each for all my comments above, yet they are still here. Funny how my more interesting comments were removed almost immediately, either at someone's request or because Baton Rouge Business Report employees found them too objectionable. Once again, I would like to have all my comments removed, not just the ones you want to remove. Thank you.

On LeJeune, Dolores

Posted on April 15 at 9:22 p.m.

I don't like this rivalry or see what good can come of it. On the other hand, I agree that New Orleans is not what it used to be, even before Hurricane Katrina. I visited a few months before the hurricane and noticed that the buildings in the French Quarter were not being kept up as they had been when I was a frequent visitor in the 70s, 80s, and early 90s. That night I decided to walk back to the Greyhound station as I had always done, but got disoriented when I couldn't see the lights of the International Trade Mart building, which I realized was vacant when I finally got back on track. I had to spend the night at the Greyhound station when I missed the 11:00 p.m. bus, and the air conditioning was turned up so high that everyone was going outside to keep from freezing to death. The employees claimed they didn't know how to turn the AC down and were wearing heavy coats, a luxury most travellers didn't think to bring along in mid May. After that long, sleepless night, I had to endure an overpowering Lysol-like smell on the ride back to Baton Rouge. In hindsight, I think there must have been a lice problem at the Greyhound station and all the buses leaving New Orleans were being fumigated. I swore I would never go back, but I love the New Orleans I remember and would certainly visit again, although not by bus. New Orleans is a great city, a unique world-class tourist destination that no other city in the South can match. We need to all work together to get New Orleans back on track and stop all this petty rivalry.

On The New Orleans reality

Posted on April 10 at 8:23 p.m.

Please remove my comments on this article, including this one. I see St. Elizabeth has another opening for a transcriptionist and I need my job back. Thanks.

On General FAQ

Posted on April 10 at 8:17 p.m.

Please remove all of my comments on this article, including this one. I see they need another transcriptionist and I need to go back to work. It would take a miracle for them to hire me back, but having these comments removed might help. Thanks.

On LeJeune, Dolores

Posted on March 27 at 2:11 p.m.

Please remove all my other comments on this article. Although I resent the CFO and my former boss for increasing the production rate for transcription by 10% for medical and 33% for radiology, Dee is a very nice lady and almost fair to a fault. She has done an excellent job from day one and you couldn't ask for a better CEO. I can't in good conscience blame her for not going against her CFO and HIM Director. You obviously can't tell an employee who punches a clock that he will have to work an extra hour or two every day for no extra pay, but that is what hospitals and transcription agencies are doing to transcriptionists across the county. I am obviously angry, but I shouldn't blame Dee for what's happening in medical transcription. I told her I wouldn't work there again for "all the tea in China", but St. Elizabeth is actually a great place to work and one of the best hospitals in the region. I would avoid a job in the HIM Department, but anyone looking for an employer with an excellent (free) retirement plan, great benefits, and frequent bonuses based on the organization's profits should consider a job at St. Elizabeth. The quality of healthcare is also second to none. St. Elizabeth has good grades at healthgrades.com in virtually every category, unlike some other large hospitals in the region.

On LeJeune, Dolores

Posted on March 24 at 1:07 a.m.

Congratulations, if you're still there.

On Norman moves up at St. Elizabeth

Posted on March 12 at 10:11 p.m.

Did you watch "Marie Antoinette" on PBS the other night? I can't imagine Sue missing it.

On LeJeune, Dolores

Posted on February 17 at 8:39 p.m.

FMOLHS (Our Lady of the Lake, St. Elizabeth Hospital, etc.) wants to present itself as a selfless Christian ministry of healing. The problem is that they are out to make as much money as possible, like all the other hospitals. Loyal FMOL employees forwarded anti-insurance propaganda via email shortly before this all began, blaming insurance companies for spiraling healthcare costs, as if hospitals aren't just as greedy as insurance companies. I didn't see OLOL's rating for cardiac care or procedures at healthgrades.com (as mentioned in above comment), but they got only one star (poor) for gastrointestinal procedures and surgeries, the only local hospital not to get three stars (average/as expected). They don't care what healthgrades.com says at FMOLHS. All they care about is what JCAHO thinks, the accrediting agency that can effectively shut them down. By the way, any complaints concerning substandard patient care can be filed online with JCAHO at http://jcwebnoc.jcaho.org/QMSInternet/In.... This includes employee whistle-blowers. JCAHO forbids retaliation by its members against employees who speak up concerning patient safety.

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