Corwin and Donely made it clear - and cuts are already happening! VPs started to advise their teams this week to prepare to be layoff is definitely coming. Working in the corporate office at 466 Lexington; the nervousness of staff is visible from blocks away. Everyone is seen their teams shrink and they might be next.
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Is the cut for all
Positions ?
Start with cutting CEO and CFO and the costly inflated management. Every day regular 9-5 employees need to make their ends meet. Very sad!
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“I wonder if the CEO will still receive his annual base salary of $10 million—excluding bonuses—while layoffs are happening. Maybe they should start by reviewing that, along with the salaries of VPs and other executives making between $1 million and $3 million a year, before cutting jobs.”
After they shared the leadership video telling everyone that they made a decision to go ahead with layoffs. I received a call from my director asking me to list staff members to be let go, from pharmacists to other very essential staff. I’m devastated. We have had a hiring freeze and knew something was coming but cutting our very essential staff is troubling for hospitals already under staffed.
True, they also lost billions trying to keep Cornell and Columbia afloat. The Trump administration left the colleges in terrible financial shape. Now New York City residents and everyone who needs NewYork Presbyterian hospitals will suffer the consequences.
Perhaps these layoffs have more to do with the more than $1 BILLION that NYP and Columbia are paying to settle all the s-xual as--ult claims from Robert Hardin, MD which they covered up for decades.
I hope they offer some kind of severance package for the poor people who are about to go.
Hospital administrators are the furthest from front line employees you can imagine. Essential? Please. They'd rather cut positions to the point of cutting into the bone than their bonuses or inflated salaries. They are executives not real doctors, nurses or advanced practice providers. Just because they have a nursing or medical degree doesn't make them clinicians. They might as well be working at JetBlue deciding which routes to cut.
While I understand your perspective on the potential for administrative redundancies, I would disagree with the notion that we should necessarily aim for a downward optimization of administrative staff across the board.
Administrators play an absolutely crucial and often underestimated role in the smooth functioning and quality of healthcare delivery. As you mentioned, they are essential to ensuring quality, risk management, and so much other vital work. The complexity of modern healthcare, with its intricate regulations, financial management, technology integration, and patient coordination, requires a robust administrative infrastructure.
Many administrators are indeed experienced healthcare professionals who bring invaluable clinical knowledge and leadership to their roles. Their understanding of the day-to-day realities of healthcare is vital for developing effective policies and processes. Reducing their numbers without careful consideration could lead to a breakdown in essential functions, potentially jeopardizing patient safety, financial stability, and overall operational efficiency.
While there may be instances of redundancy in any large organization, a blanket call for "optimizing downward" administrative staff risks undermining the very functions that are necessary for a high-quality and well-managed healthcare system. Instead of a simple reduction, the focus should be on optimizing processes, improving communication, and ensuring that administrative roles are clearly defined and aligned with strategic goals. The goal should be efficiency and effectiveness, not just a reduction in numbers.
Administrator roles are constantly evolving to meet the demands of a changing healthcare landscape, and their expertise is increasingly needed to navigate challenges such as cybersecurity, data analytics, and value-based care.
Administrative staff has increased multifold according to recent government analysis. There are such redundancies that they fall over each other to protect their turf. Providers, Physicians and other are totally frustrated. One would have guessed that with a physician at the helm this would not be allowed to happen but it has. It is absolutely necessary that Corporate and non essential, non medical staff be optimized downward and paradoxically efficiency and productivity will improve. Dead wood needs to be cut for remainder of tree to flourish.