POTTSTOWN, Pa – Berks County-based Tower Health has just announced another round of layoffs, and healthcare workers say they’ve seen this before.<\/p>\n
“This is the playbook, we’ve seen it over and over again. We\u2019ve seen it with Hahnemann, with Crozer, with Suburban; we’ve seen this in many hospitals in PASNAP that have closed,” said Maureen May, President of PASNAP.<\/p>\n
Yet another round of layoffs, but this time with 160 job cuts at Pottstown Hospital in Montgomery County.<\/p>\n
“The patients are not going to get the care that they need, and even if they do get the care, the care is going to be fragmented,” May said.<\/p>\n
West Reading-based Tower Health, which owns Pottstown Hospital, announced the cuts this week.<\/p>\n
This comes after 130 job cuts occurred at the hospital in November.<\/p>\n
The President of the Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals says this will strain other area hospitals, including those in Berks County.<\/p>\n
“There’s no more profit to be extracted from this system, and the community will suffer,” May said.<\/p>\n
In a statement this week, Tower Health says this is about making sure patients continue to have access to high-quality, local healthcare for decades to come.<\/p>\n
Tower Health says it plans to make a multi-million-dollar investment in Pottstown Hospital to expand the Emergency Department and enhance behavioral health services.<\/p>\n
The advocacy group says health care workers plan to meet with Tower Health next week.<\/p>\n
“We’re preparing to negotiate, and we\u2019re hoping that we can negotiate in good faith and mitigate some of the significant damages that will happen.”<\/p>\n
Tower officials point out that no clinical programs are closing. They say that once the behavioral health and emergency room expansions are done, they will create nearly 40 new roles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"POTTSTOWN, Pa – Berks County-based Tower Health has just announced another round of layoffs, and healthcare workers say…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":795063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[196344,8106,68608,97,252,253,142371,50803,2539,337616,147886,147885],"class_list":["post-795062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-behavioral-health-services","tag-berks-county","tag-community-impact","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-healthcare-workers","tag-job-cuts","tag-layoffs","tag-pasnap","tag-pottstown-hospital","tag-tower-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795062","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=795062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}