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NewsHospitals preemptively lay off workers to save funds
Hospital jobs are back on the chopping block, as healthcare organizations continue to struggle with escalating costs and shrinking state reimbursements. For instance, adding to an already long list Read more...
More mass layoffs as hospitals face payment cuts
With state budget cuts to Medicaid reimbursements and a weak economy, more hospitals are turning to mass layoffs to conserve resources, according to an Advisory Board Company report. Hospitals had 13 Read more...
Medicare cuts to cost 195K hospital jobs
Following reports that hospital jobs are on the chopping block, thanks in part to state budget cuts to Medicaid reimbursements comes an American Hospital Association report saying a 2 percent cut in Read more...
Hospital layoffs drop in Q1
Hospitals had fewer mass layoffs during the first quarter of 2011 than in the first quarter of last year. Ten mass layoffs occurred at hospitals in March, bringing the total for Q1 2011 to 33, Read more...
Budget woes lead to massive nurse layoffs at two hospitals
Two public hospitals in Cook County, Ill., are cutting 138 nursing jobs to save money. The mass layoffs, which the nurses union deemed the "Valentine's Day massacre," will hit Provident and Oak Read more...
West Penn Allegheny will cut 400 jobs, not 1,500
West Penn Allegheny has revised its estimated job cuts to 400 from 1,500. This past June, West Penn Allegheny Health System, based in Pittsburgh, estimated that up to 1,500 staff members would be let Read more...
Hospital layoffs to reach record high in 2010
Hospitals are on target to lay off more workers in 2010 than last year, which would rank this year as the worst for mass layoffs. So far, hospitals have implemented 102 mass layoffs in 2010, Read more...
Unions skeptical of hospital layoffs amid profitability
The plan of El Camino Hospital in Los Gatos and Mountain View, Calif., to lay off 140 employees to save money has sparked some controversy among labor groups, reports the Wall Street Journal. Read more...
Medical center will slash 300 jobs
Trustees for New Hampshire-based Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center approved cutting 300 full-time jobs over the next 12 months to help close a $50 million budget gap, the New Hampshire Union Leader Read more...
Boston Medical Center cutting 119 jobs to shrink $175M deficit
Boston Medical Center said it will lay off 119 people because"dramatic changes" in Medicaid reimbursement have led to a projected $175 million loss for the year. The healthcare provider to thousands Read more...
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