Incomplete (tip-o-the-iceberg) list of healthcare related layoffs, shutdowns and crimes in December 2018:
Shingles vaccine shortage worsens
41% of adults don’t plan on getting flu shot this season
Yet another independent study proving being hospitalized can make you worse!
WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification
CALIFORNIA: Spectra Laboratories issued a layoff WARN, 46 people in Milpitas jobless by the end of February 2019. Roche-Genentech suddenly laid of 85 people at its San Mateo County operations. Atria Senior Living forced to shutdown its nursing home in Paradise, 67 jobs gone due to the November wildfire. CardioDx issued a layoff WARN, 110 people in Redwood jobless by the end of February 2019! Golden Shore Medical Group issued multiple layoff WARNs, almost 3-hundred jobs across California gone by February 2019! Silver Lake Medical Center suddenly laid off more than 8-hundred people at its ops in Los Angeles and Rosemead!! Verity Health System issued massive layoff WARNs, more than 1-thousand-8-hundred people in Gilroy and San Jose jobless in February 2019!!!
FLORIDA: The christian god powerless to stop Hurricane Michael from killing 8-hundred jobs at Bay Medical Sacred Heart! (the official WARN lists 634 jobs gone by February 2019!)
GEORGIA: MiMedx announced it would cut 240 full-time jobs!
ILLINOIS: A layoff WARN was issued for Crothall Healthcare and Morrison Healthcare, 89 jobs in Granite City gone by the end of January 2019. Vibra Hospital of Springfield issued a shutdown WARN, 188 jobs gone by January 2019!
INDIANA: Vibra Hospital of Fort Wayne issued a shutdown WARN, 120 jobs gone by the end of January 2019!
KENTUCKY: Jewish Hospital may end its adult organ transplant programs
MINNESOTA: Walker Rehabilitation eliminating 36 jobs in January 2019.
MISSOURI: Boyce & Bynum Pathology Laboratories will lay off 177 employees by the end of April 2019!
Two Rivers Behavioral Health System to close in 2019
MONTANA: Medicaid expansion to cost state taxpayers extra $59-million!
NEW HAMPSHIRE: Private investigation launched to find out why nine hospitals shutdown their maternity care units
NEW YORK: Crothall Healthcare suddenly laid off 20 people in Middletown, due to sudden loss of contract. Clarus Linen System shutting down due to going chapter 11 bankrupt, and being sold-off, 180 jobs affected!
Oncology boss charged by Health Department in patient deaths
Buffalo doctor accused of writing 178 fraudulent prescriptions
OHIO: MACC to close residential treatment center, layoff 13 employees
OKLAHOMA: Specialized OKC Cancer Clinic Files For Bankruptcy
RHODE ISLAND: The christian god powerless to stop ‘his’ Saint Joseph Health Consolidated Service Center from shutting down in February 2019
SOUTH CAROLINA: healthcare execs plead guilty to Medicaid fraud
TEXAS: Senior Care Centers now chapter 11 bankrupt busted
El Paso Specialty Hospital closing at end of year due to financial ills
2 killed, 1 injured in Texas ambulance crash
Federal judge in Texas rules ACA (ObamaCare) is unconstitutional
WASHINGTON: Providence issued a shutdown WARN for one of its ops in Lacey, 26 jobs gone by the end of February 2019.
Washington DC: Trump pushes for new federal health law after Texas ACA (ObamaCare) ruling
Lawsuit accuses cardiologist of ‘stealing’ 4-hundred patients from his former employer
ObamaCare Death Spiral, November 2018: ‘BERMUDA TRIANGLE’