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Tag: hospitals
Non-profit organization Hospitals and Polyclinics, which manages the hospitals in Žiar nad Hronom and Rimavská Sobota, is planning to buy a new equipment for the hospital in Žiar. Estimated value of the order is more than € 1.3 million. Hospital should receive the special medical technique in the frame of project of restructuring and modernization of the special outpatient care. Project will be financed from the Operational Programme Health.
Nurses in hospital in Malacky, nevertheless, succeeded in carving out of higher salaries granted by the law from April. According to its director, hospital can not fired the most of nurses considering they did not sign the amendments, which would reduce their job time. However for higher wages are not funds, in force still remain existing contracts with the old salaries and if the hospital does not receive more money, it will knowingly violate the law.
From April, hospital in Poprad will provide only acute healthcare to the policyholders of the health insurance company Dôvera. Hospital did not make an agreement with the private health insurance company on the new contract conditions. As results from the statement of hospital, insurance company did not want to consider the needs of financing of health care in hospital and offered only 30% from the amount which hospital needs to cover the increased costs on salaries of doctors and nurses.
Health insurance company Union, which has reached the highest profit among all health insurance companies last year, will increase payments to hospitals from April only to cover increased salaries of doctors. Salaries of nurses will remain uncovered. Moreover, hospitals may expect higher payments only in case, if the system will be additionally financed either by increasing of payments from state for the economically inactive policyholders or by the releasing of € 50 million reserve for health care from the state budget.
Medical Trade Union does not like the behaviour of some hospitals against nurses by fulfilling of the Act on their minimum wages. Many healthcare institutions are in fact, due to the lack of resources, trying to avoid the approved legislation. Doctors allegedly support nurses. Trade unionist consider as the main problem of inadequate financing of hospitals the reluctance of health insurance companies to make real payments for services.
According to a hospital statement, it will not be possible to cover the increased costs on wages of nurses in the hospital in Banská Bystrica without increasing of indebtedness of hospital. Although hospital has signed the amendments to the contracts with Všeobecná zdravotná poisťovňa (General Health Insurance Company) and insurance company Union, increased payments, however, do not take into account the increased costs of salaries of doctors and nurses.
Association of Hospitals in Slovakia has adopted the proposals of Všeobecná zdravotná poisťovňa (General Health Insurance Company) and health insurance company Union for the adjustment of contracts from the beginning of April this year. Association has recommended its members to sign the amendments to the contracts with the state insurance company if the submitted proposal will be in the intentions of agreed adjustments. In case of insurance company Union, members should sign the amendments, if the offered increasing of prices will be reflected in the increased amount. Adjustments of contracts should help hospitals to cover the increasing of salaries of healthcare professionals set by the law.
Association of Hospitals in Slovakia, which associates dozens of regional hospitals, for now did not make an agreement with private health insurance company Union on the adjustment of pricing conditions from April. Insurance company Union submitted the offer, which Association refused as inconvenient. Reportedly it does not consider the increased costs on the adjustment of salaries of doctors, neither the adjustment of salaries of nurses.
After Slovak Medical Chamber also company Nemocničná, a.s., which is the owner of hospital in Malacky, is considering the legal attack of the Act on minimum wage claims of nurses. It does not have money to fulfil the law effective from April the 1st. Hospital therefore offered nurses the solution that would divide their duty between the health care part and administrative part. Nurses, however, refused this offer.
Hospitals of the Trnava self-governing region will respect the law and will increase the wages of nurses from April 1st. This will require in each of three regional hospitals in this year approximately € 1.5 million, together with increasing of salaries of doctors. According to the head of the region Tibor Mikuš this increasing can not be compensated with any measures in management, because the wage and payroll payments cost about 80% of hospital revenues. Increasing of salaries will, according to him, goes at the expense of indebtedness of hospitals.
