The Hoskinson Health Wellness Clinic announced plans Friday to eliminate around 40 positions at its Gillette medical facility.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The clinic, which opened in 2022, said it\u2019s not at risk of closing. It will continue serving 20,000 patients with a staff of around 250 employees, according to a clinic spokesperson. Patients affected by discontinued services will be notified directly.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cTo continue fulfilling its original goal of improving rural health care, the Clinic must come to terms with some harsh realities that have hurt its ability to perform in an efficient manner,\u201d a clinic press release stated.<\/p>\n
The clinic, along with construction and concrete businesses in Gillette that laid off a combined 136 workers in December, were founded by Charles Hoskinson<\/a>, CEO and founder of Input Output Group.\u00a0<\/p>\n Declining reimbursement rates, escalating costs, including high provider salaries, and the facility\u2019s payer mix were listed as factors driving the staff reduction in the clinic\u2019s press release.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cTo ensure the Clinic can continue serving the people of Gillette and Northeast Wyoming who depend on us, the health care facility must operate in a significantly more cost-effective manner,\u201d the release said.\u00a0<\/p>\n The layoff comes as Wyoming residents face mounting obstacles to health care access. Hospitals have shut down services like delivery wards in recent years<\/a>, patients increasingly drive long distances for specialty care and state residents insured on the Affordable Care Act marketplace are experiencing the highest premium increases nationwide because Congress did not extend tax subsidies<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cHoskinson has been a key source of care for Gillette and surrounding communities, helping residents access medical services close to home,\u201d Wyoming Health Resources Network Executive Director Amanda Teppo said. \u201cLike many rural and frontier providers across Wyoming, it is facing financial pressures from rising costs and ongoing workforce shortages.<\/p>\n \u201cWhile specific service changes are not yet known, reduced staffing could mean longer wait times, fewer care options, and increased strain on patients, providers, and emergency services,\u201d she continued. \u201cThese challenges reflect the broader struggle to sustain reliable, accessible health care in rural and frontier communities throughout Wyoming.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Layoffs across town\u00a0<\/p>\n Hoskinson companies announced in December<\/a> a combined 123 layoffs among its construction and concrete businesses in Gillette and that Hoskinson Concrete would be permanently closed. The actual number of layoffs in December was 136, a spokesperson told WyoFile on Friday.<\/p>\n Though some employees dispute this, the December job cuts were anticipated, according to the Hoskinson firm.<\/p>\n \u201cThe large-scale construction needs that led the clinic to create an in-house construction company have come to an end,\u201d Hoskinson Contracting CEO Chris Davis said in a press statement at the time. \u201cAs a result, Hoskinson Contracting is scaling back its operations, and the Hoskinson Concrete division is being closed.\u201d<\/p>\n Every laid-off employee would remain on payroll through January, a Hoskinson spokesperson told WyoFile at the time. A spokesperson confirmed the information with WyoFile on Friday.<\/p>\n Workers affected by layoffs can reach out to the Gillette Workforce Center<\/a>, state workforce officials have advised. Job seekers can look for employment and register at the HireWyo website<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n This is a breaking story and may be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Hoskinson Health Wellness Clinic announced plans Friday to eliminate around 40 positions at its Gillette medical facility.\u00a0…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253],"class_list":{"0":"post-412635","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health-care","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-health-care","10":"tag-healthcare"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}