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NewsEmployment paradox: Hospitals hiring, firing workers
While escalating costs and shrinking state reimbursements are forcing hospitals to preemptively lay off workers, health reform (and the influx of patients that comes along with it) is causing those Read more...
Identify 8 types of waste to fend off hospital layoffs
With a watchful eye on money coming in and out from patients, reimbursements, and donors, more healthcare organizations are closely examining existing internal processes to save their wallets and Read more...
Hiring and firing: Hospitals face economic changes
While some hospital and health systems are hiring, many organizations across the country are announcing layoffs due to cut Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements. For instance, the nonprofit MultiCare Read more...
Overall healthcare employment up, hospital employment down
Marking the half-way point of the calendar year, healthcare employment rose in June, with the largest gains in ambulatory health services, according a report by the Bureau of Labor Statistics Read more...
Piedmont Healthcare slashes 464 jobs to save millions
As a cut to five percent of its workforce, Piedmont Healthcare in Atlanta today announced it is eliminating 464 jobs to save $68 million. Like other hospitals across the country, layoffs may be one Read more...
Hospital job cuts triggered by budget uncertainties
Operating losses and state budget cuts have led to hundreds of jobs being eliminated recently at hospitals in Minnesota and Florida, respectively. The Pioneer Press reports that Fairview Health Read more...
Cleveland Clinic lays off 200 in 'consolidation' effort
Apparently the Cleveland Clinic didn't get the memo that hospital hiring is supposed to be on the rise (albeit mildly). The facility announced plans to lay off roughly 200 administrative and clinical Read more...
Hospital layoffs continue to chip away at headcount
Although some hospitals are lucky enough to be in markets where a rise in patient volume is driving hiring at a rapid clip, hospital layoffs continue apace as others plagued with lower patient Read more...
UMass Memorial to cut 350 jobs
In the largest hospital cutback in Massachusetts this year, UMass Memorial Health Care is cutting about 350 jobs, according to the Telegram & Gazette of Worcester. The reduction in force is part Read more...
Baptist Medical Center lays off 186
Baptist Medical Center in Jackson, Miss., laid off 186 people, or 5 percent of a total staff of more than 3,700, over the past week. The cuts were part of an initiative to cut overall spending by at Read more...
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