80 people laid off 8/11/2026) in IT support and PACs (imaging). They outsourced the work to a company called "Infinite". They signed a multi-year contract with Infinite. The workers have had to work along side them for the last several months. The workers from Infinite have little health care experience.
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Make no mistake. Its always about the money. Even if everything is AI the patients will pay the same or more for service. And profits will go up. Calling Ascension non profit is a joke.
We are in the AI era, and that’s what matters most. A huge shift is coming, and you need to adapt to the new normal. Jobs in IT, HR, accounting, and other fields will be affected, and some may disappear. However, new opportunities will emerge for those who have the knowledge and skills to use AI effectively. The future belongs to those who adapt, learn, and evolve with technology.
They dissolved our department and had us train our HCL replacements almost a year ago. They hired double our number so can't see that there was much in the way of savings. We provided them with loads of documentation and several recorded training sessions yet they still can't handle the simplest of requests without our end-to-end assistance. And when I say simple, I mean IT for Dummies simple. Nevermind that we received zero training or mentoring throughout our Ascension careers. Go figure. Oh, and don't get me started on the blatant hiring and promotion of our Ind--n executives' childhood friends from India? It's an open secret yet zero compliance investigations?
Yeah, and we are hiring foreign labor too, look at the stats for 2026
https://h1bhq.com/search?employerSlug=ascension-health-alliance&fiscalYear=2026&pageSize=25
What you fail to understand is, these people have no skills that apply to the job. They have zero technical or health care experience.
The workers hired by the 3rd party companies barely speak english. Most do not have health care experience. The US employees and contractors clean up their messes and are forced to work with them though most don't have skills to contribute.. They do not know how to behave in a hospital setting, often upsetting hospital staff. They will be hand held through various projects then these third party companies that are mainly body shops for H1B workers will be awarded multi year projects.
At the end of the day, it comes down to who has the right skills and who doesn’t.
If Ascension could work out the logistics, they'd put patients on 747's and fly them to India for treatment to save money.
No, not turning into. It already is in IT between hiring an Indian CEO then outsourcing 90% in 2021. And it has only increased since then.
Is Ascension turning into an Indian Company? Asking for a friend.
Another reason that I'm glad I'm not there anymore.
@118 It basically is now. All that's really left is security oriented teams that they won't get rid of, and the people that are managing the MSPs.
The entire company will soon be outsourced, especially the IT department.