Fourteen nurses accepted voluntary separation packages. Others were reassigned to positions for which they are qualified, according to the report.
The severance packages and reassignments are a change in the hospitals’ initial workforce strategy, which involved layoffs. In December, parent San Francisco-based Dignity Health announced plans for layoffs, which would become effective Jan. 31. Those layoffs were delayed to late February due to a flu epidemic at the hospital. A reason for the change in strategy was not detailed in the report.
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