Washington County Regional Medical Center, a rural 56-bed hospital in Sandersville, Ga., laid off 27 employees Tuesday to cut costs, according to WMAZ.
The layoffs come after WCRMC struck a management contract with ER Hospitals, a Sandy, Utah-based healthcare management company that helps financially struggling facilities, the report states.
"Revenue has declined, honestly, for a number of years and you just have to right size any business," said Jim Croome, chairman for the WCRMC Hospital Authority, according to WMAZ. "You have to have the right number of employees for the revenue that you have, and so it just came to the point that we had to make an adjustment."
With the contract, Mr. Croome added the hospital is able to share hospital staff from other ERH-managed locations. He expects the hospital to eventually see annual savings between $2 million to $3 million as a result.
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