After Predicting $20M Loss, Boston’s Beth Israel Ends Year With $10M Gain

After predicting this March that it would lose $20 million in fiscal year 2009, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center reported that it ended the fiscal year on Sept. 30 with a $10.3 million operating gain, according to a report by the Boston Globe.

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CFO Steven Fischer attributed the turnaround to “extreme fiscal prudence, including sacrifices from employees across the medical center, who temporarily gave up raises, vacation time, and retirement benefit matches to help eliminate a projected $20 million deficit and minimize layoffs.”

Last winter, the hospital laid off 70 workers, consolidated research operations and suspended annual raises.

Read the Boston Globe’s report on Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

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