St. John’s CEO, Dr. Paul Beaupre told community leaders and the public Friday that things need to change in the current COVID-19 emergency or the hospital will become insolvent in a matter of eight to nine months. By not performing elective procedures, Beaupre says the hospital is losing about $6-million in income per month.
Beaupre said, “With that in mind, our staff are doing everything humanly possible to help diminish costs by taking time off, using PTO or even unpaid time off; but there is no possible way that we can turn the tide of this type of loss.”
Beaupre says over the next several weeks, efforts will be made to begin returning the hospital to more normal operation. However, to do so, he says they will need to be able to do many more PCR tests than they are currently able to do. Beaupre says the hospital is aware that the community has health needs that can’t be put on hold indefinitely. Likewise, St. John’s must resume providing a full range of services to all our patients to remain solvent and continue to be here to serve our community.
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