The hospital administrators are starting a meeting and "you need to leave"
And they left the sign up after they were done.
And they left the sign up after they were done.
Do the administrators not have meeting rooms of their own, that they have to chuck out patient's families?
What would be different about the family room on the next level down? Presumably that one would be intended for family of patients on the next level down...
Based on "you need to leave," they kicked out patients' families who were already in the lounge, instead of going to one that nobody was already in.
It could be they kicked out all but one of the patient's families because they were meeting with that family. I've seen that happen a few times, where staff needs to have a private conversation with the family, and needs to improvise a private meeting space. Usually the family waiting area will have a room set aside specifically for that purpose but not all of them do.
Happens outside of ICUs sometimes, since you can't have a meeting in the patient's room. In that case, the reason they wouldn't have gone to the one downstairs is because often times you don't want to ask the family to move to another floor if their loved one is on the floor they're already on.
OP implied they were kicked out of the room. At least the empty family room down one level was empty.
Was that literally what they told you? "Administrators" and "you need to leave"?
Because often times in hospitals, the family areas double as a sort of consultant area for patient's family to speak with doctors and occasionally lawyers if matters of a will need to be addressed. Particularly outside of ICUs where the family cant meet with the doctor in the room.
For context it's a palliative care facility. Everyone in the family room is there visiting patients being treated for chronic pain, mostly terminal.
I'd guestimate bout a third of the hospital is the administrative wing.
And seeing the way the staff are treated the admin can go suck the big one.
For context it's a palliative care facility. Everyone in the family room is there visiting patients being treated for chronic pain, mostly terminal.
Are you positive they weren't meeting with a patient's family member? In a "we got some bad news and need to get some things sorted asap" way?
Would you rather have them charge patients more, so they could build a meeting room for themselves exclusively?
There is not even a 0% probability that US hospital administration decided to save money by inconveniencing themselves in anyway.
Literally not even 0%. Not anywhere in the vast and deeply corrupt US medical system is a single hospital administrator, anywhere, that would make that decision.