The thousands of dollars we paid into our flex health plans, are we going to get it back? No one is giving us any answers.” Are we going to have more co-pays and deductibles now? We don’t know. “We’ve been told we will get ‘comparable medical insurance.’ At St. Now we’ll be under LabCorp, which has a 401 (K) and hasn’t said anything about matching our contributions. We had a 403 (B) retirement plan, and our contributions were matched by Ascension. “We don’t know what is going to happen to our benefits. If you don’t accept the offer, once the changeover is done you won’t be working here anymore. We were told to reapply for our own positions. We have been told we are no longer Ascension St. All the work associated with the lab done by techs and phlebotomists is being moved to a different facility in Troy and will be run by Labcorp. “Ascension is going to replace all our jobs with contractors. Tersigni, was the second-highest-paid nonprofit health care executive in the US in 2021, with an annual salary of $13,655,282.Įven though Ascension Health received $1.8 billion in government funds under the federal coronavirus CARES Act grants, the management of the organization is continuing with its cost-cutting measures including the termination of full-time employees and their replacement with contract workers.Ī veteran lab worker spoke to the World Socialist Web Site about the contracting out of jobs at Ascension St. The CEO of Ascension Health and Chairman of the Board of Ascension Capital, Anthony R.
While Ascension Health is operated as a “not-for-profit” entity, the health care system owns a venture capital fund with over $15 billion in assets under management. The health care conglomerate with an annual revenue in 2021 of more than $20 billion, has closed facilities and laid off thousands of employees in a single-minded drive to improve financial performance and increase the compensation of its executive staff.
Since that time, Ascension Michigan has acquired another ten hospitals in the state.Īt each step along the path of expansion, Ascension Health has cut costs at the expense of employees and patients alike. John Providence Health System, which operated four hospitals and 125 medical facilities in the Detroit Metropolitan area, was acquired by Ascension Health and renamed Ascension Michigan. Louis-based Ascension Health is the product of the consolidation of the health care industry over the past two decades. Like the other large hospital systems in the US, the St. John Hospital workers Īlthough the “select assets” have not been disclosed, for phlebotomists, technicians and other lab workers at Ascension facilities in Alabama, Florida, Kansas, Maryland, Michigan, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin, the deal means they are being terminated as full-time hospital employees and must reapply for their jobs with Labcorp.Īscension Health is the third largest health care network in the US with 143 hospitals and 2,600 medical facilities in 19 states and the District of Columbia. The Leapfrog Group is a registered 501(c)(3).
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