Michigan health care system furloughs nearly 2,500 employees as coronavirus dominates services

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One of Michigan's largest health care systems is finding itself in the financial red as they battle the novel coronavirus, leading to thousands being temporarily laid off from their jobs.

Nearly 2,500 employees at one of Michigan's largest health care systems learned on Tuesday they would be furloughed, due to particularly dire financial circumstances related to the novel coronavirus outbreak.

Stock image: Nurses and midwives recruitment is seeing a shortage. Officials with Michigan's healthcare organizations are facing the possibility of layoffs during the COVID-19 pandemic"While many front-line employees have never been busier, other parts of our operations have drastically declined or ceased," Fox said in anBeaumont Health admitted its first COVID-19 patient 39 days ago, Fox said, and began the process of ramping care for those critical need patients.

Days earlier, the McLaren Medical Group announced that many of the organization's physicians and staff were being furloughed, due to a 60 percent decrease in patient volumes, according to theJulie Lepzinski, president and CEO of McLaren Medical Group, said they were making adjustments to operating hours to compensate for declining patient volume while maintaining care for COVID-19 patients.

 

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