Former employees of bankrupt Steward Health Care may soon collectively lose tens of millions of dollars in retirement savings, as financial reckoning continues for the system that once operated eight hospitals in Massachusetts. Those employees put their trust — and their savings — with the company, only to see their retirement funds revert to Steward as it works to resurrect a viable business from what was the largest private, for-profit hospital network in the country.
Longtime labor leader George Gresham was toppled by his former lieutenants in a contentious race to lead the nation's largest health care union. Gresham, who became president of 1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers East in 2007, lost his reelection bid by a resounding margin to challenger Yvonne Armstrong, who leads the union's long-term care division.
An employee at Corewell Health Beaumont Troy Hospital was shot by another employee Thursday morning inside a parking garage, police say. The hospital, located in the area of M-59 and Dequindre Road in Troy, was placed on lockdown after the shooting happened around 7 a.m. According to Troy police, the situation appeared to be an isolated incident between the two employees. The suspect was taken into custody in Macomb Township and the victim is reportedly stable.
Over 200 Johns Hopkins employees will be laid off in May, according to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification. The Bloomberg School of Public Health and JHPIEGO, a nonprofit global health affiliate of the Baltimore institution, are primarily affected by the first batch of mass layoffs. JHPIEGO will experience 130 employee layoffs, while the school of public health will have 107.
West York Borough Police officer Andrew Duarte died in the line of duty on Saturday after a man opened fire and took staff hostage inside the UPMC Memorial Hospital ICU in York County on Saturday. York County District Attorney Timothy Barker confirmed that two other officers from York County and three UPMC staff members were shot and are all in stable condition. A fourth UPMC staff member was injured after falling during the incident.
The Trump administration's effort to slash the size of the federal workforce reached the FDA this weekend, as recently hired employees who review the safety of food ingredients, medical devices and other products were fired. Probationary employees across the FDA received notices Saturday evening that their jobs were being eliminated. The total number of positions eliminated was not clear Sunday, but the firings appeared to focus on employees in the agency's centers for food, medical devices and tobacco products. It was not clear whether FDA employees who review drugs were exempted.