Orlando Health to cut record number of jobs to save money

[Freewill]

Not sure why I bring this stuff up, we all know that most people proved they don't care as the liberal will tell us. Not sure when they will care, oh right, when it directly effects them. Don't care about Benghazi, don't care about people being put out of work, don't care about nothing.

Orlando Health layoffs: Orlando Health eliminates 400 jobs through layoffs and attrition - OrlandoSentinel.com

In the largest staff reduction in its nearly 100-year history, Orlando Health is cutting up to 400 jobs starting immediately, hospital system officials announced Monday.

The move is part of a broader effort to position the hospital system for the health-care overhaul, CEO Sherrie Sitarik said.

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.

 

[LoneLaugher]

Gee......that sounds awful.

It must be terribly hard for a person in the medical field to land a job. Just awful.

 

[LoneLaugher]

Nonprofit hospitals' bosses get big bucks - Orlando Sentinel

 

[PredFan]

Not sure why I bring this stuff up, we all know that most people proved they don't care as the liberal will tell us. Not sure when they will care, oh right, when it directly effects them. Don't care about Benghazi, don't care about people being put out of work, don't care about nothing.

Orlando Health layoffs: Orlando Health eliminates 400 jobs through layoffs and attrition - OrlandoSentinel.com

In the largest staff reduction in its nearly 100-year history, Orlando Health is cutting up to 400 jobs starting immediately, hospital system officials announced Monday.

The move is part of a broader effort to position the hospital system for the health-care overhaul, CEO Sherrie Sitarik said.

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.

Yup. OH has always done an excellent job preparing iitself for change. In the 30 years I've been there they have survived the competition from Florida Hospital which is an Adventist Hospital and thus has mega bucks supporting it, the competition from Columbia Hospital system a few years back, and dealing with DRGs, a wonderful government idea. Now, being brilliant businessmen and women, they will get us through the worst disaster ever to hit modern medicine; Obamacare.

I used to work with Sherrie Sitarik when she was a nurse.

 

[PredFan]

Gee......that sounds awful.

It must be terribly hard for a person in the medical field to land a job. Just awful.

It isn't dumbass, and it isn't the point of the OP.

 

[PredFan]

Nonprofit hospitals' bosses get big bucks - Orlando Sentinel

John Hillenmyer, who is now retired btw, deserves every single penny he made. You wont prepare a hospital system for a crisis like obamacare by paying good leaders a paltry sum.

 

[Freewill]

Gee......that sounds awful.

It must be terribly hard for a person in the medical field to land a job. Just awful.

yeah your are right, I heard the message from the left loud and clear, "most don't care."

 

[uscitizen]

Right wingers are never satisfied.
Cut medicare/Medicaid costs they whine and when that is done they whine about them being cut.
Sheesh.

 

[Freewill]

Right wingers are never satisfied.
Cut medicare/Medicaid costs they whine and when that is done they whine about them being cut.
Sheesh.

Left wingers never are satisfied. They come into a thread about a hospital cutting jobs because of Obamatax and then post non-sequiturs. Apparently when the subject can't be defended the tactic is to change the subject, to anything else.

 

[Greenbeard]

As hospitals make moves that improve care and reduce readmission rates from infections, their revenues drop, said Sitarik.

"We have made great strides in improving our quality outcomes. But these gains have also triggered lowered revenues due in part to a reduction in readmissions."

The cuts are necessary as the hospital transitions to a new payment model, one that pays based on value or outcome, not on volume, said Sitarik.

"Eventually that will even out," said Lewis, "but for a while it will present a fiscal challenge."

Bingo. A simple summation of 1) the magnitude of the perversity in the existing system, 2) why reform of these payment and delivery structures was so necessary, and 3) why this is the most important and exciting period of change ever experienced by the American health care system.

Forward!

 

[LoneLaugher]

Well, WTF happened to the outrage in this thread? It went "poof!" all of a sudden.

 

[Clementine]

Gee......that sounds awful.

It must be terribly hard for a person in the medical field to land a job. Just awful.

It isn't dumbass, and it isn't the point of the OP.

Well, it never used to be difficult. Nowadays, getting any job is difficult and Obamacare is causing all companies to take stock and ask themselves if keeping employees is in their best interest. Employees are becoming huge burdens, thanks to Obamacare.

 

[Freewill]

Right wingers are never satisfied.
Cut medicare/Medicaid costs they whine and when that is done they whine about them being cut.
Sheesh.

How was medicare/Medicaid costs cut?

 

[Freewill]

Gee......that sounds awful.

It must be terribly hard for a person in the medical field to land a job. Just awful.

It isn't dumbass, and it isn't the point of the OP.

Well, it never used to be difficult. Nowadays, getting any job is difficult and Obamacare is causing all companies to take stock and ask themselves if keeping employees is in their best interest. Employees are becoming huge burdens, thanks to Obamacare.

It is cheaper to work fewer employees more hours then to keep a larger staff, that is fact. I am thinking that those they are cutting are not nurses or doctors but janitorial or security, don't know for sure. What we do know is what they SAY and they say what they are doing is because of Obamatax. But i doubt the left will believe them, apparently to the left everyone is a liar except themselves.

 

[LoneLaugher]

Bullshit.

 

[Freewill]

Bullshit.

Thank you for condensing down whatever you were going to post into the Reader's Digest version.

 

[LoneLaugher]

No problem you deserve nothing less.

 

[Politico]

A lot of changes and shifts are going to be made over the next 12 months. Those folks will land somewhere else.

 

[Greenbeard]

Right wingers are never satisfied.
Cut medicare/Medicaid costs they whine and when that is done they whine about them being cut.
Sheesh.

How was medicare/Medicaid costs cut?

Good question.

On the Medicare front, it provided the tools needed for the long-term structural reforms for getting costs under control. Common sense approaches to fixing Medicare like: (1) shift the way Medicare pays for services away from encouraging high-volume, low (or mediocre) value service provision, and (2) promote and assist health care providers in delivering better care more efficiently and less expensively, while holding them accountable for quality outcomes.

Some examples of things that are already happening:

• What We're Doing | Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation
  
• Hospital Value-Based Purchasing | Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
  
• AHRQ Effective Health Care Program
  
• Shared Savings Program | Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
  
• EHR Incentive Programs | Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

They're taking a page out of the book of industry leaders like the Mayo Clinic, the Geisinger Health System, Intermountain Healthcare, Kaiser Permanente, etc. and spreading the model to help more people via Medicare:

July 10, 2012 WASHINGTON – Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced Monday that 89 new accountable care organizations (ACOs) have joined the Medicare Shared Savings Program as of July 1.

The 89 new organizations join 27 other ACOs that were announced last April to participate in the Shared Savings Program.

According to HHS, this brings the total number of federally sponsored ACOs to 154, including the 32 ACOs participating in the testing of the Pioneer ACO Model by CMS' Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (Innovation Center) announced last December, and six Physician Group Practice Transition Demonstration organizations that started in January 2011.

“Better coordinated care is good for patients and it saves money,” said Sebelius. “We applaud every one of these doctors, hospitals, health centers and others for working together to ensure millions of people with Medicare get better, more patient-centered, coordinated care.”