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Article: Workers may not lose jobs: Hospitals to keep ARAMARK staff.
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- The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA)
- Article date:
- July 3, 2007
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Byline: John Stucke
Jul. 3--Empire Health Services intends to bring its housekeeping, laundry, food services and clinical engineering departments back under hospital management after the company it outsourced the jobs to four years ago announced Friday it was terminating its contract.
The move affects about 245 employees, according to the Washington State Employment Security Department. It also comes at a time when Empire has entered into a letter of intent to sell its two hospitals to Tennessee-based Community Health Systems Inc.
Empire had hired ARAMARK Healthcare in spring 2003 to take over the departments after posting losses and then ...