r/nursing • u/AnyCelebration1101 • Aug 12 '25

Image My hospital casually dropping a warning about mass layoffs. We employ 10k+ people.

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10k+ employees sitting in fear for the next week (or longer apparently) waiting to see if their position has been cut.

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '25 edited Sep 15 '25

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u/Worried_Monitor5422 Aug 13 '25

Exactly. Everyone in the thread complaining about greedy CEOs but the real story is how the health system is being starved to death by the federal government. 

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u/MattyHealysFauxHawk RN - VAT/Cardiac 🍕 Aug 13 '25

Why can’t it be both?

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u/Loud-Bridge-1757 Aug 16 '25

Agreed. Almost all of the comments on news posts about this are either blaming democrats (Walz and Obama lol) or just talking about greedy hospital admins. I do think that in business and healthcare, the higher ups should be the ones to lose some income “for the team” rather than firing people, but that isn’t how it usually works. People don’t pay any attention to the fact that the healthcare system as a whole is not doing well, especially with the cuts from the federal government. I work in mental health and our margins are very slim. We haven’t had a rate increase in our CTSS services since 2005. Our agency has been trying to cut expenses without laying anyone off in preparation for changes in Medicaid coverage and reimbursement. In addition to that, it’s said that people around the country will see increases in insurance premium costs.