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Zeezer, Yes, I'm sure that I worked at a hospital in California that was owned by Province/LifePoint Healthcare (they merged). You don't see the California hospitals, because the two that they owned, Palo Verde Hospital in Blythe, California, and Colorado River Medical Center in Needles, California, they SOLD back to the communities. It was about that time that they also built Valley View Medical Center in Fort Mohave, Arizona.
Province/Lifepoint Healthcare is a "spin off" of HCA. They are the urban version of HCA. I have also worked in a few of those hospitals... Both are well known in the travel nursing field for having high nurse to patient ratio's. Unless you're smart enough to put your nurse to patient ratio's in your contract then you CAN be assigned up to 8 or 9 patients. And in some states, the LPNs can't do as much as the RN, so you get to help them also.
It's not just me, I have three other evaluations from traveling nurses who say that the...
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