Columbia, S.C.-based Providence Hospitals announced the layoff of 56 employees yesterday, according to a State report.
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Calhoun Memorial Hospital, a 25-bed critical access hospital Arlington, Ga., is in danger of closing, according to a WALB News report.
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Nurses at St. Louis University Hospital and Des Peres Hospital have voted to unionize, and collective bargaining talks have begun, with nurses seeking increased pay and improved staffing ratios, according to a St. Louis Post-Dispatch report.
Claxton-Hepburn Medical Center in Ogdensburg, N.Y., has ratified a three-year labor agreement with the Service Employees International Union that will raise its service employees' pay, according to a Watertown Daily Times report.
Central Florida Health Alliance, based in Lady Lake, Fla., has announced plans to outsource approximately 27 local jobs to an Orlando company in an effort to trim costs, according to a Daily Commercial report.
E.A. Conway Medical Center in Monroe, La., — part of Baton Rouge-based Louisiana State University Health System — will eliminate 30 jobs and 22 beds, according to a News Star report.
Holy Family Hospital in Methuen, Mass., is expected to eliminate 24 jobs when it closes its inpatient transitional surgical rehabilitation unit, according to an Eagle Tribune report.