Wingman66
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quote: The elimination of jobs will occur in two phases and represents a 2 percent to 3 percent reduction in the system's 16,000-person work force, said Orlando Health spokeswoman Kena Lewis. The cuts affect all departments and all eight of the system's hospitals, including Orlando Regional Medical Center and Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children, two of the system's better-known facilities.
Although no staff nursing positions have been eliminated, the hospital has cut nursing management positions. Those workers may apply for lower-level nursing jobs.
The first wave of employees affected received their notices Friday, Lewis said. The next wave of downsizing will occur after the first of the year.
The non-profit health network also will reduce staffing through attrition, she said.
Another part of the system's five-point cost restructuring includes eliminating "admirable but not sustainable" programs, Lewis said. The hospital also will work to standardize certain health-care procedures.
The hospital is cutting supply expenses by consolidating pharmaceutical purchases through one wholesaler and by renegotiating contracts for cardiac pacemakers and implantable defibrillators. Those two measures combined will result in an annual savings of $825,000, Lewis said.
The hospital will also delay capital spending, she said.
However, the hospital system will move forward with its $300 million expansion and renovation of Orlando Regional Medical Center, which is under way, and its $50 million acquisition of Physician Associates, a large, primary-care medical practice. That purchase is set to be complete Dec. 31.
Orlando Health officials called the cost-cutting moves necessary.
If I was getting ready to spend 350 million, I'd strenghten my bank account also. If these folks were in charge of hostess, there would be twinkies for everybody.
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