Some hospitals are reducing their workforce due to financial and operational challenges, and some are offering new positions to affected workers.
1. The city’s initiative for COVID-19 testing and contact tracing, NYC Test & Trace Corps, will complete universal contact tracing by the end of April. NYC Health + Hospitals, which is leading the program in collaboration with the city’s Ministry of Health and other agencies, said 874 workers when the program shrank, according to a notice filed with state regulators on March 4. Will be dismissed. Temporary employees will be dismissed at the end of April. According to the notice, managers affected by the layoff will retire between May 13 and May 27.
2. MarinHealth Medical Center will have 104 revenue cycles and supply chain employees in April after signing a contract with Optum to provide these services, according to a notice filed with state regulators in February. I will dismiss you. MarinHealth, based in Greenbrae, Calif., Said that as a result of the contract with Optum, all employees in the non-contracted revenue cycle and supply chain will end their employment in the hospital on April 9. Dismissal. A hospital spokesman said employees who accepted the offer would start hiring at Optum on their first working day after leaving Marin Health. Becker Hospital Review..
3. Portsmouth’s Southern Ohio Medical Center has eliminated 95 vacant seats and fired 30 employees as part of a restructuring aimed at addressing COVID-19 pandemic-related challenges.Hospitals are making changes to make them more efficient and sustainable, a spokesman said. Portsmouth Daily Times..
4. The St. Mary’s Medical Center in West Palm Beach, Florida, including 21 registered nurses when it stopped providing mental health services in April, according to a notice filed with state regulators 49. Dismiss a person’s employee.
5. Tower Health, based in West Reading, PA, closed Brandywine Hospital in Coatesville, PA on January 31st. According to a notice filed with state regulators, 534 employees were dismissed on February 7, as a result of the closure.
6. Galesburg (Illinois) Cottage Hospital was closed on January 8th and the worker was informed by email that his employment had ended. The hospital’s CEO, Dr. Sanjay Sharma, said the hospital was closed due to the CMS’s decision to terminate the facility’s Medicare contract. In February, OSF HealthCare, based in Peoria, Illinois, signed an intention to purchase real estate, medical equipment and other assets at Galesburg Cottage Hospital. The OSF said it expects the deal to be signed this spring, but has no plans to provide inpatient treatment at the facility.
7. Pensacola, Florida-based Baptist Healthcare outsourced various services to Wayne, Pennsylvania-based Compass One Healthcare in a notice filed with state regulators in February 233. Said that it reduced employment. According to the layoff notice, affected employees were offered Compass One positions for the same or higher wages.
8. Community Hospital Long Beach (Calif.) Closed in December and handed over the acute care license to the state. Long beach post. The hospital dismissed 328 employees earlier this year, according to a notice filed with state regulators. The hospital said the layoffs will begin on February 1st and may be phased in. Hospital owners plan to move the facility to a behavioral health and wellness campus.
9. Columbia University Irving Medical Center in New York City fired 56 workers in February, but affected employees offered employment at the New York Elderly Hospital, according to a notice filed with the state. Was done. According to the notice, the temporary dismissal is due to the integration of the electronic medical recording system of Columbia University Irving Medical Center and New York Elderly Hospital.
10. Berkshire Health Systems, based in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, issued a notice to state regulators in February indicating that 94 employees were dismissed as part of a structural restructuring with Berkshire Healthcare Systems. I submitted it. Affected employees have been offered the opportunity to continue their current role under an employment contract with the Berkshire Healthcare Systems Entity starting February 1. Becker Hospital Review..
11. Tower Health closed Jennersville Hospital in West Grove, PA on December 31st. According to a notice filed with state regulators, 293 employees were dismissed as a result of the closure.
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