Nearly 1,000 Desert Springs Hospital Employees To Be Laid Off

After more than fifty years serving our community, Desert Springs Hospital has announced that they are discontinuing all in-patient services and laying off close to one thousand employees.

According to an article written by Brett Forrest on News3LV.com, officials made the announcement on Tuesday, January 10th, which detailed their plans to end in-patient services in March 2023. They will then transition into a Freestanding Emergency Department, and they intend to operate the facility like that for the next two years. These plans must be approved by the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services.

Desert Springs Hospital, at the corner of East Flamingo Road and Burnham Avenue, has served Las Vegas since 1971. They are currently part of the Valley Health System, whose spokesperson said that the 970 health workers that will be laid off "will be given information sessions and job fairs to find new roles across their hospital system." Forrest's article goes on to state that there is currently a shortage of health care workers in Southern Nevada, so experts in the field believe these workers should not have any problems finding work in their chosen vocations.

Forrest's post on News3LV.com reports that just days after the Desert Springs Hospital announcement, University Medical Center announced it will be holding job fairs to assist the laid off Valley Health System workers find new positions in the UMC Health Care System. The two-day job fair will be held Thursday, January 19, and Friday, January 20 at UMC's Delta Point Building at 901 Rancho Lane. UMC currently has over 400 job openings that need to be filled. Per Forrest's article, interviews will be held at the UMC job fairs and it is possible for laid off health care workers to receive on-the-spot job offers.

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As anyone who has watched the classic episode of The Office where the Dunder Mifflin team learned CPR (sort of) knows, the Bee Gees' "Stayin' Alive" is the perfect song to do CPR to. While the episode is hilarious, CPR is no laughing matter. Lyrically, "Stayin' Alive" is a bit on the nose. But it is also 100 beats per minute, which is the perfect pace to administer CPR.

You shouldn't be picky about music when administering CPR, of course. Time is of the essence. But just in case, New York Presbyterian Hospital has a playlist of songs at 100bpm. Though the playlist has 57 songs and runs 3 and a half hours, we picked the funniest and oddest ones to play in the crucial moment of saving someone's life.

Per the Mayo Clinic, Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is a lifesaving technique that's useful in many emergencies, such as a heart attack or near drowning, in which someone's breathing or heartbeat has stopped. If you're afraid to do CPR or unsure how to perform CPR correctly, know that it's always better to try than to do nothing at all, so pick a tune and get to pumpin' because the difference between doing something and doing nothing could be someone's life. But, hey, why not dedicate a little time so that you are actually prepared to take action if you need to. Learn more about the basics here.

Incidentally, in the aforementioned scene from The Office, the CPR instructor tells Steve Carrell's Michael Scott to sing "Stayin' Alive," and he instead starts singing Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive." That song is also at 100bpm, so that would have worked as well (assuming that Michael is better at administering CPR than he is at keeping secrets). But you wouldn't want to start with the intro of that song, which is slower than 100 bpm, just jump right to the chorus.

See below our 10 favorites from the list:

Singing "Is it too late now to say sorry?" while giving someone CPR feels a bit weird, but hey, it's 100bpm!

Justin's song is weird in this scenario, as it makes us want to dance. Don't worry about bringing sexy back when you're doing CPR.  Also: "Don't be so quick to walk away."

Now the folks over at the New York Presbyterian Hospital, like The Office, have a great sense of humor to include "Stayin' Alive" by the Bee Gees. It's pretty on the nose!

"When you see my face, hope it gives you hell, hope it gives you hell." Hopefully, giving someone CPR will have the opposite effect.

Hearing Missy Elliot saying, "Is it worth it? Let me work it" while giving someone CPR seems like the most inspiring song on the list. Please note that this song and video may be NSFW, even if it might help save a life.

The music video (which may be considered NSFW) takes place in an ER (which is also a bit on the nose). Tracy Morgan makes a cameo as hospital security, which is hilarious.

Instead of being an arms dealer, it's much better to be a breath dealer while getting someone's breath pumping again.

It's also a bit on the nose: "When I die and they lay me to rest/Gonna go to the place that's the best!" That's all well and good, but hopefully CPR will delay that trip.

Modest Mouse singer Isaac Brock may not have been sincere when he sang "Well, we'll float on, good news is on the way." But you can take it literally in this instance, especially after successful CPR.

Keep them "big wheels" turnin' so you can go back to whenever you call home, whether it's Alabama or anywhere else.