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Copyright 1999 Daily News, L.P.
Daily News (New York)
April
16, 1999, Friday
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News; Pg. 31
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203 words
HEADLINE:
HOSPS EXEC SAYS LAY-OFFS ARE ON WAY
BYLINE:
By MARTY ROSEN
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Several of New York's private hospitals struggling to pay their debt and meet payroll will begin cutting staff next week.
Kenneth Raske, president of the Greater New York Hospital Association, gave a grim assessment of the financial health of New York's hospitalsyesterday and predicted six months of deep cuts. He would not say which hospitals will participate in the first wave of lay-offs.
"We have not heard up to this moment of any dramatic-scale lay-off," said Dennis Rivera, president of Local 1199, which represents employees in the voluntary hospitals. "I know that many of the hospitals in New York have approached us with the difficulties they have. They have been falling behind in payment of pension plans and benefit plans."
Raske has predicted that as many as a dozen voluntary hospitals could close unless the state restores budget cuts to Medicaid, federal funding is restored to
graduate medical education,
and the problem of the uninsured is fixed.
Some hospital administrators say they already have trimmed staff so severely they now must cut programs or sacrifice the quality of care.
"Any safety net in the system is being chipped away and torn apart," Raske said.
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