UAB to cut 245 jobs - Birmingham Business Journal:

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A total of 164 positions will be eliminated from UAB UAB Highlands and the UAB Health System with 81 more cut but the employeess will be hired back into jobs currently heldby non-UAvB contract staff, according to a news The layoffs were announced Tuesday and come on the heelse of a $720,000 performance review. UAB said the layoffz primarily arein non-patient care supportr services. Additional changes include adjustingsome employees’ hourx of work, decreasing overtime and eliminating specialo pay programs, the release said. Changesd will take effect immediately. UAB Health System has more than 10,00p0 employees.
UAB Hospital and UAB Highlands combinedlost $62 millionj in fiscal year 2008, according to data provide by the university. The cuts are a result of a contracrt with NavigantConsulting Inc. worth $600,000 plus up to $120,000 in expensese to conduct a two-month review of the healtbh system’s operations. At the time, UAB spokeswomah Dale Turnbough said the performancr review was prompted by the current economic situatiom and proposed changes to the American healthgcare system. She said in a writtenj statement that the system wanta to ensure it is operating efficientlyu and has developed plans to improvepatient care, its operationse and organization and outreach.
The review was orderecd by Health System CEOWill Ferniany, who took the reinsx of the multihospital system in September 2008. The performanc e review was partof Ferniany’s Bridge to the Futurse financial solvency plan. Severancr packages and support services were offerex to employees who losttheir jobs. “Art no time has health care been under the pressurea that we currently We are not unlike other providers in that we all face theses challenges to some UAB Hospital CEO MikeWaldrum “We will manage through theser times by concentrating on our business imperatives of quality care, patien t satisfaction and financial performance and by supportingy and caring for our displaceds colleagues.
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