TKC BREAKING NEWS!!! MASSIVE LAYOFFS AT ST. LUKE'S!!!
An AWESOME TKC TIPSTER sends word today of a horrible sign for the KC Job market and employer decision making. Check it:
"St Luke's on the Plaza fired 100 workers in middle level management today to cut costs while constructing a multi-million dollar expansion"
The massive firing is pretty disheartening given that Obamacare cash could create even more harsh times for the Hospitals in the near future . . . I just hope we'll get a warning when cost cutting measures include reusing needles and bandages.
posted by Tony Permalink
middle-level management - NOT support staff. huh.
the city and the school district (both KCMO) sure could take a page from St. Luke's book, couldn't they?
good point.
Obama will hire them all back.
Well here are the facts...on monday all the patient care tech's reported to Human resources and then some were fired and some were offered there jobs back. Some got severence packages and some didn't. Today the laid off 24 managements positions. 15 were middle-management and the others were in other positions throughout the hospital. One was a lacation consultant. So really they laid off quite a few that were not management..but staff that actually cared for patients. My wife works there and her department took alot of cuts! They only wanted to fire about 50 people, but many more took the severance package and that was more then expected. The scary thing was they told people to clean out their lockers and gave them times to show up on MONDAY to get fired!
That's too bad. Luke's on the Plaza is, honestly, one of the best hospitals in the metro. I have great respect for their ER staff.
Unlike KU Med, they don't act like they're God's hospital. They do good work without all the fanfare.
support staff got laid off on monday, actually. so this is the second round in less than a week.
Hi--I'm one of the PCTs that took the severance. I cannot imagine how cutting our pay, doubling our patient load and piling many of our former tasks onto already overwhelmed nurses is going to help patient care. I worked my ass off to make sure all my patients were clean and comfortable, that they felt cared for, that their families were taken care of and that I communicated EVERYTHING with the nurses I worked with. Many of us felt St. Luke's gave the best care in the city and treated the support staff well, so we're angry by the demeaning way that this was handled. If St. Luke's claims to be surprised that twice as many PCTs took the severance as those who were "let go", they are backpedaling. How sad for what was once an outstanding place to work. This couldn't have just been "it's the economy". I'd like to know which specific issues caused that kind of money to be lost from our hospital. Too much overtime due to hiring freezes? Poor reimbursement rates? Or did it have something to do with the new construction going on? We were given no answers at all, and we begged for those answers. An issue that affects this many people cannot be as simple as "well, we've got a lot of debt". So, really, is burying the staff SLH has left really the answer to keep the patient census up?
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