Marshfield Clinic Health System to lay off 346 workers across network

[riversedge]

It says below one of categories to be laid off are RN's.. They have been replaying RNs with lower positions for some time now and I know because these are my clinics. The lower positions are sometimes on the job training-such as as my eye clinic. lower paid it ends up. These new folks are polite but they just do not have the background knowledge for initial assessments. I end up tell the doc when i get there everything anyway. Such is the times.




Marshfield Clinic Health System to lay off 346 workers across network


https://www.weau.com/2023/03/01/marshfield-clinic-health-system-lay-off-346-employees/

An exterior shot of on the Marshfield Clinic campus in Marshfield. (WSAW Photo 2/27/20)

Published: Mar. 1, 2023 at 11:59 AM CST|Updated: 12 minutes ago

MARSHFIELD, Wis. (WSAW) - Marshfield Clinic Health System has announced 346 employees across its network in Wisconsin, Michigan, and other states will be laid off with 222 of those from Wisconsin alone, making up 63% of the total layoffs.

The following is a list according to the Wisconsin DWD Warn notice of affected locations and the number of employees/positions:

Colby (1), Marshfield (60), Rhinelander (1), Minocqua (11), Weston (14), Merrill (4), Wausau (14), Stevens Point (1), Stratford (1), Wisconsin Rapids (1), Woodruff (1), Hayward (2), Ladysmith (8), Park Falls (9), Caddot (3), Eau Claire (16), Chippewa Falls (5), Rice Lake (13), Neillsville (10), and Beaver Dam (47).

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“We are not immune to the immense pressure and unprecedented challenges gripping the health care industry in recent years, which has required us to identify ways to be more efficient and more resourceful,” said Dr. Susan Turney, CEO of Marshfield Clinic Health System. “Reducing staff is always painful. This is ultimately about preserving the long-term efficiency and sustainability of our organization.”

The health system has also eliminated more than 500 positions that have been unfilled and no longer recruited. A media release stated that the move has lessened the impact on employees.

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[Tetrachloride]

1. I've been "at" 2 of the network's facilities

but more than 5 years ago.

My extended family on my father’s side is often in the network.

I remember when i used to hear nothing but good stuff about Marshfield Clinic

[MOMFUDSKI]

2. Corporate thieves always

find a way.

[ewagner]

3. We've heard the rumors for weeks...

IN A CITY OF ~20,000 word/rumors travel fast. Almost everybody in the city knows of at least one or more persons who have been laid off. Sometimes it is an entire department that is terminated at once and replaced by tele-medicine or something else.

Leadership of the clinic has decided to challenge the taxation of clinic properties in a lawsuit that has now entered it's 3rd year...loss of those tax revenues to the City, School Board, and County governments will be devastating if they are successful.

The Marshfield Clinic was at once the shinning start of modern medicine. It has lost it's luster.

[sybylla]

5. So true and so sad.

They've been challenging the property taxes for what seems like decades. It's ridiculous that they spend so much money on lawyers for that, but investing in decent staffing and clinic/hospital infrastructure has gotten short shrift for as long.

So much whining that they can't hire nurses, but it's bull. They just can't hire nurses for the crap wages, benefits, and hours they want to pay.

I am afraid Marshfield will soon be like Neillsville - reduced to specialized care only and triaging emergency patience before sending them to Wausau.

[Wild blueberry]

4. Gulp

This affects so many of us in rural northern Wisconsin.

[ewagner]

6. Did you notice.....

In some of the smaller, rural communities where there is a MCHS clinic, they are adding on something like a "9 Bed Hospital" facility....there's a reason for that....if they can designate the whole site as a "hospital" then they will declare them tax-exempt and demand a refund for taxes paid.

[Wild blueberry]

7. Thank you for alerting me to that

Will be checking my local clinic, which IS building a "hospital".