The nonprofit regional system offered the voluntary buyouts to employees with a decade of service who are age 55 or older, and had “select job functions,” the report states.
Leslie Paul Luke, president and CEO of St. Joseph’s, said in a statement obtained by the CNYBJ the system “reviewed applications from eligible employees who chose to accept the voluntary offer and notified each applicant of their status.”
“In all, nearly 30 percent of the 300 eligible employees accepted the offer, and we have begun working with them on departure timetables and knowledge transfer. We are pleased to report that the response from eligible and noneligible employees alike was positive, and we are quite optimistic about our future,” he added.
Mr. Luke also said St. Joseph’s “is growing in some areas of our business and realigning resources in others.”
“In fact, we employ more people today than we did in 2016, and like any reasonable organization we must continually assess how to best deploy those resources. We have over 150 open positions currently, and we continue to hold recruitment events to help us fill vacancies in strategic focus areas like home care and outpatient services. Ultimately, this effort was a success, and it will help us achieve the flexibility we need in order to continue our transformation from a pay-for-service model to one focused on population health, efficiency and outcomes.”
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