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Article: 500-700 LAYOFFS FOR BETH ISRAEL IN EFFORT TO AVERT SALE
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- January 8, 2002
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The new chief executive of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
said yesterday that he will lay off 500 to 700 employees, or 10
percent to 15 percent of the staff, in part to forestall the
possibility of selling the Harvard Medical School teaching hospital
to a for-profit health care company.
Paul Levy, who began running the money-losing hospital yesterday,
said the layoffs are the first step in an urgent turnaround plan and
will begin this month. The hospital's approximately 900 nurses will
be exempt from layoffs, which means that some other departments will
see their ranks shrink more than 15 percent. Physicians will not be
spared, but administrators and other "behind-the-scenes" ...