(Update: press conference addendum)
Despite the move, “it will still end 2022 with a really extensive operating loss. “
BEND, Oregon (KTVZ) – With hired labor, high-end appliances and source prices, and solid revenues, st. Charles announced Wednesday that he had “made the difficult decision for his workforce” through more than 180 people.
The relay will be 105 caregivers through layoffs. Another 76 vacancies have also been eliminated recently, the four-hospital formula said in a press release, which continues below:
The 105 layoffs, which will take place over the next 3 days, are basically aimed at non-clinical spaces where the organization has discovered, through a basic knowledge review process, that it has more than other fitness systems of similar size.
“Over the past two years, our caregivers have risen and succeeded in unprecedented demanding situations by caring about our community, so it’s unfair that we now place ourselves in this position,” said St. Brown’s president and CEO. John’s. . Charles, Joe Sluka. ” While our monetary scenario is none other than that of many other fitness systems across the country, this resolution hurts. They are our people.
Even after taking competitive steps to address its existing monetary challenges, which included cutting expenses and identifying revenue opportunities, the fitness formula said it had “a $21. 8 million hemorrhage through April. “
The organization’s expenses and revenues began to worsen in the spring of 2020, when its labor, appliances and origin prices began to skyrocket at the same time that it forced to particularly decrease the number of surgeries it performed due to restrictions related to the pandemic and want to maintain the capacity of beds to care for critical patients with COVID-19.
This imbalance persisted through 2021, as St. Charles has experienced 3 significant increases in COVID-19 patients, operating up to 107% of its capacity, making it difficult to recover from its pre-pandemic surgery point and other services.
The payment of more than $95 million in the federal budget it has earned over the past two years for its operations has further exacerbated st. John. Charles, the hospital system said.
While the workforce adjustments the fitness formula is making this week are expected to reduce spending by about $20 million a year, St. Charles said he will still end 2022 with a really extensive operating loss. With a focus on the power of its operations, the organization strives to achieve a positive operating margin through late 2023 or early 2024.
“It took two long years of the pandemic to put us in this situation,” Sluka said, “and it will take us at least two years to get out of it. But we will. And we will continue to take care of our network now and in the future.
Workforce discounts account for about 4% of the total on St. Charles, the region’s largest employer, had just over 4500 workers in this year’s qualification of the largest personal employers in the Central Oregon Economic Development Region, though this is a relief from the 2021 total of 4,626 caregivers.
At a news conference with hospital officials, Rebecca Berry, vice president of human resources, said they are “definitely recruiting” for other vacancies, especially nurses and technicians for acute care and operating room. It was estimated that there were still about 400 vacancies to fill after the cuts.
Asked via NewsChannel 21 if further cuts are more likely or possible, Sluka said: “Despite all our efforts to cut expenses, as you can see, our prices have continued to accelerate. And we will take more cost-cutting measures over time. “
“We hope the effect on our caregivers is something we no longer have to go to the hotel for. But we can never say about it. . . At this point, there is nothing planned or anything on the table, and we hope that we may no longer have to go to the hotel for that. “
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Sluka sent the following email Wednesday, titled “Hard Times, Hard Decisions”:
For the more than two years, caregivers at St. Charles worked tirelessly to care for other people in central Oregon when they needed it most: a global pandemic, a public health crisis unprecedented in our lifetime.
They turned a parking lot into a COVID-19 site.
They turned an empty convention hall into a vaccination clinic.
They cared for the sickest COVID-19 patients in our hospitals and the newest remedies in our clinics.
Along the way, St. Charles, with the network, did everything possible to take care of our caregivers, so they can take care of you.
All this, of course, comes at a price:
We worked hard to decrease expenses for a few months, and those efforts helped. But they are not enough to pull us out of this monetary abyss. We ended April with a loss of $21. 8 million.
We are now at the point where we want to take more steps toward long-term monetary stability of the health care system.
It pains me to tell you that we want to reduce staff this week. We are getting rid of 76 positions that were already vacant, but that is not enough. We are also cutting 105 positions, which will result in layoffs.
First of all, it’s not just a number. They are our colleagues and friends. We are grateful for their determination to our network and are saddened to see them depart.
Over the past few weeks, we have gone through an extensive process in which we compare each and every domain in our organization to industry benchmarks.
When we meet those standards, we want to make changes. In particular, many leadership positions are being eliminated to align our structures with other fitness systems of our size.
These discounts are expected to spend more than $20 million according to the year.
Still, we’ll probably end 2022 in the red. It took us two years of pandemic to get into this situation, and it will take us at least two years to recover. And unfortunately, we are not alone. Organizations in Oregon and the country face similar monetary challenges.
To the communities we serve, I want to assure you of a few points:
While those decisions are incredibly difficult, we are making them because we are committed to adapting a more effective and better equipped physical care formula to continue what we have done for the past 104 years: caring about the others in downtown Oregon.
As always, we appreciate your support.
Sincerely, Jo
It’s time to revive Da’Rona and make a lot of money!T-minus thirteen days and counting until I get out of this state joke.
Are you going to start promoting used cars again?
Goodbye! Don’t let the door slam you.
Look at that door, take care of it when you go out.
You haven’t noticed anything yet, this country is being pushed to the ground and it’s everyone else’s fault. The Craigs List is going to have a lot of things to sell soon.
It is unfortunate that they announce this to the public and keep all their workers alert. . . It will have to be depressing not to know if you are going to get a task next week or not. My center is coming out to all. the St. Charles workers right now who are nervous.
I’ve lost a LOT of respect for the hospital over the years, but it’s a new low point. . . Good task St. Charles. Good task.
Too much to worry about the intellectual health of employees.
Cut a few more frames. . . like Joe and the others who remodeled St. Charles in an exaggerated monstrosity of mediocrity.
There are 11 executives. Is it mandatory to have so many executives to execute a fitness formula of this size?But let’s get rid of the workers who earn a fraction of what they do.
Maybe Joe and the rest of the control team will settle for a pay cut or maybe they won’t settle for bonuses. . . there is a good starting point.
You stuck it in your head! I have worked there for almost a decade and the biggest illness in this hospital is senior management. Seven-figure salaries and six-figure bonuses, while genuine caregivers are among the lowest paid in the state and have worked to death. start cutting positions for monetary reasons, they have to start with Sluka and progress from there.
“In particular, many leadership positions are being eliminated to align our structures with other fitness systems of our size. “
I’m surprised, surprised I tell you. Last year, when the union withdrew large pay raises from the hospital, it knew the other shoe would soon fall. It took a little longer than expected, but the remaining union members can now say goodbye to their friends leaving the hospital. front door with its cardboard boxes. But they will have a job, so there will be no luck for their unionized colleagues. By the way, yesterday I was at a workplace in St. John’s ClinicCharles. I was the only patient in the waiting room and I got to see the doctor five minutes early!The other 4 or 5 staff members were hanging around with little to do. I don’t know why this little clinic works the way it does. with so much staff for such a small workplace. This seemed to be a very inefficient business model.
Free government does this to all industries: it makes them inefficient. St Charles is no different.
Yes. A truth.
They will use more cash from Rona for the big salaries and bonuses of their leaders. Biden’s fool rate is already asking for more funding. The question is where does the cash come from? America is now devastated thanks to the worried tactics of the rona Democrats. Planned safely. They need each and every country to be led through the WHO and the globalists.
Now imply how many MILLIONS Sluka the sucka has done in the last 3 years. He has to settle for a big pay cut, like a layoff. In addition, I did not see that it was reported that most of the body of painters in crisis (Rn’s, Cna’s, rt’s, etc. ) were paid through the federal government on the occasion of an emergency. St. Chucks had 2 years of loose paints! Where did all that money go?I hope some other hospital will take over. I feel bad for all the painters who have been forced to take the vaxx that is not approved by the FDA to be cut anyway. What horrible leadership, other hospitals paint so much more, and the staff is respected.
This is a frightening move in the SCMC component. They overlook who San Carlos is and what he stood for. Triste. Je challenge the highest-paid staff to study and reconsider that decision. Maybe cut the salaries and bonuses of the richest 5% and leave the caretakers alone because of the intelligence of our network paintings!I mean, weren’t you begging other people online and on TV to pass you drawings?What a shame. These cute little classified ads are also unreasonable. I would first fire your entire legal and marketing team, then review and revise the most productive salaries and bonuses before letting anyone who earns an hourly wage pass through!KTVZ deserves to ask for a list of salaries and bonuses. Show us so we can hold you accountable!In my opinion, we want another hospital to compete with SCMC. This will allow them to remain financially fair and accountable with the networked paintings they serve. Sorry for those who lose their jobs in 3 days.
Bah!Nonsense!!! The CV19 hoax was fed with government money, and it’s over!
Federal subsidies for vaccines and C19 remedy protocols are declining.
Maybe Joe shouldn’t have let so many other people down because of Covid?he will have to leave
It’s crazy that the number one purpose of our health care formula is to make money. Imagine if the primary purpose of the U. S. militaryIf you were to make money, what would it look like.
Some require non-monetary goals.
Beej ~ other people who get army contracts make ridiculous money. What about the U. S. defense budget?Do not miss. It’s a shame that all WPM politicians don’t devote more to schooling than to their war games.
https://www. bendsource. com/bend/st-charles-financially-devastated/Content?oid=12601668
Where is my position?Censored for what reason?It’s my fault that St Charles fired people.
SCHS is rumored to have $8 million in debt. Senior executives~$750,000 for the moment I heard. More benefits. For what!?
A healing position ~ even close.
In 2012, they failed in the classification system, but being the medical facility in the region, they were allowed to continue operating. And pay a ridiculous refund for the maximum number of senior officers.
From 2020″ to 2017, Sluka earned $1. 12 million in reimbursement, according to the hospital’s IRS Form 990. The executive’s total reimbursement for this era is more than $6 million. WE WANT TO KNOW HOW MANY MILLIONS SLUKA HAS TAKEN SINCE 2017! The fact that he is crying over the fact that the hospital’s formula is broken is quite fun to contemplate that last summer they cancelled elective surgeries until December because the staff was not covid. Then they fired the unvaccinated and now they lay off more staff. Guess who JOE SLUKA is sucka In 2017, Sluka earned $1. 12 million in payments, according to the hospital’s IrS Form 990.
I intended to upload this link. https://www. bendsource. com/bend/st-charles-financially-devastated/Content?oid=12601668
Bon. Joe approached the governor and took covid money. Your outfit deserves to disappear
It would be funny if the hospital took over and rehired the unvaccinated with intact seniority.
I just had a procedure at the NEW Bend Surgery Center, a very impressive medical center with wonderful surgeons. I can’t say enough good things about it and I hope all my procedures will be done there.
Bad management, bad management, bad management!!! The South Dakota mafia has to go.
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