I retired from Univ of Michigan Hospital last year. We got an email about laying off employees. We have 28K hospital employees. We have total of 50K employees with School included. In 2018 we had 2.4M clinic visits. Our inpt visits are down. ER visits down. We are expecting to lose 1 billion dollars in next year. Hiring freezes, wage increases will not be give this year. They are considering stopping the 10% contribution for pensions. No mention of other benefit changes like insurance and retiree premiums, vacation days, etc.
This is one of the largest hospitals in Michigan and it has been decimated.
Other hospitals are laying off like Henry Ford 2800 employees. Beaumont 2K.
I have no idea what lies ahead but it’s insane that we have decimated hospitals because of Detroit and Wayne areas. 3,500 deaths out of 9.9 million people in Michigan.