Butler Hospital announced that it is beginning to post positions to permanently replace striking union employees on Tuesday. Care New England, Butler Hospital's health system, said the action is in response to the union's indefinite strike.
Norman Regional Health System has laid off 300 employees, 10% of its workforce, even cutting entire clinics. Exactly where those cuts were made isn't clear, but those layoffs include some of the open positions that will not be filled.
Holy Family Hospital is moving to shutter some services at its Haverhill campus, including the emergency department, less than a year after new owners took over the facility during the Steward Health Care collapse. An attorney for Holy Family Hospital, now owned by Lawrence General Hospital, wrote to healthcare regulators signaling that hospital officials want to close several dozen inpatient medical and surgical beds and the emergency department in Haverhill this fall.
Attorney General James Uthmeier says the state would not sit on the sideline while many hospitals have 'extorted patients who have come in with life-or-death cases and left with crippling debt.'
The Trump administration's efforts to strip protections from more than half a million legal immigrants could devastate the health sector, endangering care for the elderly and worsening rates of both chronic and infectious diseases.
After 165 years of care, UC Health is closing its post-acute care facility, the Daniel Drake Center. The healthcare group said it is instead planning to "invest in access to high-demand services and community needs." The Drake Center will close by September 30, 2025, and patients currently receiving care will either complete their treatment on-site or be transitioned to other UC Health locations. "The facility's age and services contributed to sustained financial challenges," UC Health wrote in a press release announcing its closure. UC Health did not provide a number of employees who might be affected by the closure.