Hospitals are on pace in 2010 to implement slightly more mass layoffs than the record year of 2009 and substantially more employees would be affected, according to a report by American Medical News.
Through August, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported hospitals had 102 mass layoffs in 2010, which, at the current pace, would come to 253 such events on the end of the year, one more than the record of 152 mass layoffs in 2009. Mass layoffs are defined as those involving 50 people or more.
Also through August, 8,233 hospital employees were affected by mass layoffs, which, at the current pace, would total 12,349 employees by the end of 2010, compared with 11,757 in 2009. The 2010 estimate would be the second-highest loss since 2000. The highest was 13,282 in 2005, due mostly to hospital shutdowns from Hurricane Katrina.
The bureau reports hospitals implemented 12 mass layoffs in August, involving a total of 1,027 employees, and 14 in July, affecting 1,357 workers.
Read the American Medical News report on layoffs.
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Through August, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported hospitals had 102 mass layoffs in 2010, which, at the current pace, would come to 253 such events on the end of the year, one more than the record of 152 mass layoffs in 2009. Mass layoffs are defined as those involving 50 people or more.
Also through August, 8,233 hospital employees were affected by mass layoffs, which, at the current pace, would total 12,349 employees by the end of 2010, compared with 11,757 in 2009. The 2010 estimate would be the second-highest loss since 2000. The highest was 13,282 in 2005, due mostly to hospital shutdowns from Hurricane Katrina.
The bureau reports hospitals implemented 12 mass layoffs in August, involving a total of 1,027 employees, and 14 in July, affecting 1,357 workers.
Read the American Medical News report on layoffs.
Read more coverage on layoffs.
-Hospital Mass Layoffs Increased in January
-With $230M Budget Shortfall, Jackson Memorial in Miami to Cut Almost 1,000 Jobs
-New York City's Health & Hospitals Corp. to Cut 500 Jobs, End Physician Contracts