Care providers cut hundreds of jobs - San Francisco Business Times:

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will cut about 24 jobs out of roughlgy 6,000 overall full-time-equivalent positions by the endof June, accordingv to CEO Mark Laret. These include management, IT, medical technician, clerical and other Laret said UCSF has racked up recore patient volume inrecent months, but needs to prepare for likely Medicarer reimbursement cuts and sharply increased pension fund obligations once the University of California rejiggers its systemwide pension UCSF’s confirmation that it will tweak the size of its workforc e follows last week’s news that San Francisco’s is eliminatingv 200 jobs, most of them CPMC said it’s taking othed steps to cut costs, including a 3 percent pay cut for management, a hiring freeze and a freezse on capital spending.
Some jobs have already been while others will be cut over the next few said spokesmanKevin McCormack. CPMC wants to cut $30 millionj with the latest reductions, after earlier squeezing out $30 million by trimminbg hours and other Sutter Health said just two ofthe 26-hospital system’x Northern California affiliates have institute workforce reductions in recen weeks, CPMC and Sutter Solano Medical Center in which has sliced five full-timde support and management positions. The East Bay’ s hasn’t had layoffs, said spokeswoman Carolyn Kemp, but is tweaking staffingg patterns to save money in the wake of a patien census thatwas “well budget.
Earlier this month, cut 70 non-clinica positions in Northern California due todippingt enrollment, and in mid-March said it would slasn 860 jobs as part of downsizin g and outsourcing initiatives in its IT unit. Kaise r said 160 systemwide IT jobs would be cut for economic reasons; some 700 jobs are leaving the Oakland-based health-cared giant due to a $500 million, seven-yea outsourcing deal with .