Speaking of staffing, does Lancaster Community face a shortage of nurses?
Fortunately because of the notoriety of the new hospital, we’ve been successful at recruitment. We also have a close working relationship with Antelope Valley College and their nursing program. We support, as does Antelope Valley Hospital, faculty positions there. We have a program called Adopt-A-Student where we pay tuition for students and they make a commitment to our hospital. We have a good feeding ground of nurses coming in. We hear there are a lot who live here working in the San Fernando Valley for example who, once the new hospital is open, have an interest in coming back here. Q: Has Lancaster Community needed to make staff cuts like other hospitals in the region? A: We’ve had some, but not on a major scale. Most of the time when we look at layoffs, we redistribute staff into positions where we have vacancies so people aren’t actually losing jobs. It has happened on occasion that we may eliminate programs or something of that nature but we have not done anything because of th
