{"id":256282,"date":"2026-07-31T12:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T12:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/256282\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T12:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T12:10:08","slug":"pottstown-hospital-nurses-decry-layoffs-seen-this-story-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/256282\/","title":{"rendered":"Pottstown Hospital Nurses Decry Layoffs: &#8216;Seen This Story Before&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tower Health, the owner of Pottstown Hospital along with Phoenixville and Reading hospitals, said that they were cutting 160 jobs in order to fund an expansion of the emergency department and other improvements. It comes just months after another 130 jobs were eliminated last fall. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tower can say whatever they want in a statement, but let&#8217;s be honest here,&#8221; RN Lori Domin, a longtime Pottstown Hospital nurse and president of the Pottstown Nurses United union, said in a statement. &#8220;This is a reduction of services that is going to lead to a reduction of care and more difficulty accessing care for this community.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tower Health, the owner of Pottstown Hospital along with Phoenixville and Reading hospitals, said that they were cutting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-256282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}