Liberty Medical Supplies layoffs: 250 Port St. Lucie employees to lose their jobs(200

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Liberty Medical Supplies layoffs: 250 Port St. Lucie employees to lose their jobs(200 in VA, too)
WPTV-TV ^ | December 18, 2012 | Eric Pfahler

Liberty Medical Supplies layoffs: 250 Port St. Lucie employees to lose their jobs

PORT ST. LUCIE — Liberty Medical Supplies announced Tuesday plans in two months to lay off 250 employees from its Port St. Lucie location after the company's new owners opted to exit the Medicare fee-for-service business in early 2013.

Employees will be given severance packages depending on their positions, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman Frank Harvey said. Some of the company's outgoing business will turn over to Coral Springs-based Arriva Medical. Harvey said Arriva Medical probably will hire several hundred employees from Liberty Medical for at least six months.

Liberty Medical also announced the company will layoff 200 employees at Salem, Va. where the company has about 350-400 employees, Harvey said.

The company now has between 1,200 and 1,300 employees at its Port St. Lucie location, Harvey said...