The North Carolina NAACP held a rally this week to keep Vidant Pungo Hospital in Belhaven, N.C., open, according to a WITN report.
Leadership & Management
Some of the most well-known health systems and academic medical centers across the country are acting less like the very thing they once built themselves upon: hospitals.
More than 100 hospital and health system leaders gathered on Capitol Hill Oct. 29 to oppose hospital funding cuts and protect patient care for the American Hospital Association's Advocacy Day.
Elkin, N.C.-based Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital plans to lay off 31 employees, or about 3 percent of its workforce, according to an Elkin Tribune report.
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State University of New York Downstate Medical Center announced plans Monday to lay off 500 employees at Brooklyn, N.Y.-based Long Island College Hospital, but those plans have now been postponed, according to a Brooklyn Eagle report.
Glens Falls (N.Y.) Hospital plans to cut down its workforce through voluntary and involuntary layoffs, according to a Post Star report.
The following eight hospital and health system layoffs and workforce reductions were covered by Becker's Hospital Review in the past two weeks. They are listed below by number of employees and/or positions affected.
Albany, Ga.-based Phoebe Putney Health System plans to cut 127 positions as part of a restructuring plan, according to an Atlanta Business Chronicle report.