{"id":17364,"date":"2025-10-26T15:47:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T15:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/17364\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T15:47:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T15:47:16","slug":"heights-university-hospital-begins-laying-off-staff-moves-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/17364\/","title":{"rendered":"Heights University Hospital Begins Laying off Staff, Moves Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Dozens of staff members at Heights University Hospital (formerly known as Christ Hospital) were told Friday they will be laid off. The layoffs take effect Sunday, Oct. 26.<\/p>\n<p>While the exact number of staffers who received layoff notices is unclear at this time, last week a spokesman for the Health Professionals and Allied Employees said about half of their 205 members &#8212; or roughly 102 people &#8212; were informed they could be affected.<\/p>\n<p>Get two free articles a month!<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Success! Your account was created and you\u2019re signed in.<\/p>\n<p>An account was already registered with this email. Please check your inbox for an authentication link.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/jcitytimes.com\/author\/assata\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" alt=\"Avatar photo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Assata-Headshot-80x80.jpeg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-80 photo\" height=\"80\" width=\"80\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tE. Assata Wright is a staff writer who covers zoning, development, infrastructure, and transit. For six years she covered Hudson County politics and municipal issues as a staff writer for the Hudson Reporter,&#8230;\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jcitytimes.com\/author\/assata\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by E. Assata Wright\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dozens of staff members at Heights University Hospital (formerly known as Christ Hospital) were told Friday they will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[12121,75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-17364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-jersey-city-health","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}