Jackson Health System plans to announce “a significant number” of layoffs within the next two weeks to “right-size” the organization, its CEO told The Miami Herald Friday.
Carlos Migoya said managers are looking at each department to see where cutbacks make sense without hurting the quality of patient care, the newspaper reported.
Patient volume has dropped because people are staying a shorter amount of time in the hospital and because more patients are getting outpatient treatment rather than being admitted, Migoya said, so there is “less need for staff.”
The system includes six hospitals.
Migoya said neither Jackson North nor Jackson South would be sold, as his predecessor suggested two years ago.
“We are tired of this quick-fix, Band-Aid approach that does nothing to sustain Jackson for the long term,” SEIU local President Martha Baker responded in a statement Friday.
According to her, admissions have gone down “because no strategies have been implemented to attract patients and increase revenue.
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"Furloughs, in fact, are having the opposite effect," Baker said. "If this continues, Jackson will be cut and cut until our public jewel is devastated."
