AM I NEXT? NO LOVE AT COMMUNITY HOSPITAL LONG BEACH

Long Beach, California-based MWN Community Hospital, the operator of the Community Hospital Long Beach, has announced that is repurposing the hospital property beginning with the shutdown of its acute care and emergency department operations.

The repurposing is planned in stages and will affect 328 employees including nurses medical staff, and support personnel who will be laid off commencing January 31, 2022.

According to a company statement, "MWN is planning to transition the hospital into a behavioral health and wellness facility named Long Beach Community Wellness Campus. The transition will allow the hospital to avoid about $75 million in construction costs to bring it into compliance with California's seismic requirements for acute care."

Change is coming. There will always be a tomorrow, no matter how much you may try to ignore it. There are no guarantees in life or promises for a bright future. Just because something bad hasn't happened yet, doesn't mean it won't. It can happen to anyone, anytime, anywhere. No one is guaranteed to wake up tomorrow and still have a job by evening. Are you now wondering, Am I Next?

AM I NEXT? IS THE HANDWRITING ON THE WALL AT SUTTER HEALTH?

Sacramento, California-based Sutter Health, a not-for-profit integrated health delivery operating 24 acute care hospitals and over 200 clinics in Northern California, has announced the retirement of its CEO, Sarah Krevans, in early 2022. Sutter's Board of Directors has launched a nationwide CEO search to replace Krevans.

Sutter is not without issues, including a two-year operational loss attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic as well as other issues involving worker disputes, labor actions, and a number of multi-million-dollar settlements with the federal government over alleged fraud and anti-kickback law violations.

As with most senior leadership changes, the handwriting is on the wall as the new executive uses their "honeymoon" period to implement strategic reviews, restructuring, and, of course, consolidations and major reductions in the labor force.

It is time to evaluate your department’s revenue, staffing, and costs -- mindful of further automation, outsourcing, and centralization to reduce duplicative services.

Change is coming. There will always be a tomorrow, no matter how much you may try to ignore it. There are no guarantees in life or promises for a bright future. Just because something bad hasn't happened yet, doesn't mean it won't. It can happen to anyone, anytime, anywhere. No one is guaranteed to wake up tomorrow and still have a job by evening. Are you now wondering, Am I Next?

AM I NEXT? MEDNAX SERVICES

Sunrise, Florida-BASED Mednax Services, a medical personnel staffing group that provides specialists and support personnel to hospitals, health systems and health care facilities offering women's and children's care across more than 24 specialties, has announced a reduction in force for those working or reporting to its Sunrise, Florida headquarters.

The reduction in force will affect 671 employees and is scheduled to commence on October 31, 2021.

The decision was driven by the outsourcing of Mednax's revenue cycle management operations (billing, collections, reporting) to a third-party vendor, Murray, Utah-based R1RCM Inc, specializing in state-of-the-art, end-to-end Revenue Cycle technology..

On July 14, 2021, CVS Aetna voluntarily dismissed its 2018 litigation with Mednax which alleged "the multispecialty medical group of exaggerating the severity of newborns' clinical conditions, resulting in unnecessary tests and overbilling the insurer by $50 million."

Change is coming. There will always be a tomorrow, no matter how much you may try to ignore it. There are no guarantees in life or promises for a bright future. Just because something bad hasn't happened yet, doesn't mean it won't. It can happen to anyone, anytime, anywhere. No one is guaranteed to wake up tomorrow and still have a job by evening. Are you now wondering, Am I Next?