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Bostwick Labs to cut 90 of 154 workers at south Orlando facility (Florida)
The Orlando Sentinel ^ | December 7, 2012 | Marni Jameson

Posted on 12/09/2012 9:31:21 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Bostwick Laboratories Inc. will lay off 90 of 154 employees in its Orlando lab between now and next August, the company said Friday.

In a layoff-warning letter sent to the state, human-resources manager Michael Tenney said the employees would be let go from the south Orlando facility at 7001 Lake Ellenor Drive. Positions being eliminated range from medical technologists, lab specialists and lab assistants to purchasing and distribution specialists.

Virginia-based Bostwick, founded in 1999, specializes in diagnosing cancer through such methods as analyzing prostate biopsies and urine tests...

(Excerpt) Read more at articles.orlandosentinel.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine; Local News; Science
KEYWORDS: florida; layoffs; medicine; obamacare

1 posted on 12/09/2012 9:31:34 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: null and void

more for the list


2 posted on 12/09/2012 9:33:42 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; All

Not good news for my area...even with the Medical Complex opening up near Orlando Intl Airport...not sure the new Medical Complex (Nemours Children’s Hosp., UCF Medical School, future VA Hosp.) is, or has plans, to take up the slack


3 posted on 12/09/2012 9:47:41 PM PST by SeminoleCounty (Seems that the ones who understand little about the economy are economists)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Help me understand - why, on the verge of bringing “affordable healthcare” to millions of people “who don’t have/can’t afford it now” - - are we seeing these layoffs and cutbacks in all segments of the healthcare industy?

Shouldn’t this industry be experiencing the strongest growth in decades, with all these new consumers to serve?

(yeah...I’ll add the /sarc )


4 posted on 12/09/2012 9:52:34 PM PST by bigbob
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To: bigbob

Good question. The other question is why after news of layoff after layoff did the unemployment rate go down?


5 posted on 12/10/2012 12:12:05 AM PST by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I wonder how many of the 90 voted for Obama.


6 posted on 12/10/2012 3:00:30 AM PST by Hoodat ("As for God, His way is perfect" - Psalm 18:30)
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To: dsrtsage

Very simple to answer unless you were being sarcastic. Those leaving the labor pool altogether has been shrinking much faster than the number of those who got any kind of job. It’s called the Labor Participation Rate and was devised to skew the real numbers because those leaving the pool causes the total number of those actively looking going down as a ratio of the jobs available.

Essentially, the labor pool is shrinking faster than there are new jobs to replenish it.


7 posted on 12/10/2012 3:26:05 AM PST by mazda77
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To: dsrtsage

I should have said those available in the pool is shrinking.


8 posted on 12/10/2012 3:27:13 AM PST by mazda77
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To: SeminoleCounty

Lab workers are the lowest paid in most hospitals ,, lower often times than “environmental” staff (floor sweepers) ... most hospitals list the lab as an expense on their org chart and not a “profit center” ,, makes sense that an external lab would be hard hit by cutbacks frontrunning Obamacares reduction in reimbursements. besides .. a delay in getting lab results ,, although potentially disastrous for a patient ,, can legitimately extend the gravy train of paid days as an inpatient for the hospital!! (sorry ,, no sarc here)


9 posted on 12/10/2012 3:38:38 AM PST by Neidermeyer
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