The workforce reduction comes as the hospital converts many of its patient rooms from double occupancy to private rooms in response to lower inpatient volumes. “We’re trying to take a decreased volume and do something that’s a patient satisfier,” Thomas Stover, MD, president and CEO of Akron General Health System, told the Beacon Journal.
The hospital stands to save about $4 million from the layoffs and the private room conversion, according to the report.
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