Upwards of 800 people will lose their jobs under a “major restructuring” at the University of Miami medical school in the coming months, per UM’s president Donna Shalala.
The reason is understandable. State budget cuts, less research money, lower compensation from insurers and cutbacks in payments by Jackson Health System, according to President Shalala.
“It’s not a great situation,” Shalala said, “but at the end of the day, we’ll be a much stronger health care system of a much higher quality because we will be able to reinvest in health care delivery. … We’ve moved this institution to new heights. The world is changing beneath our feet.”
Employees will be notified this month and the cutback is the largest by any employer in the state since Jackson announced 920 layoffs in February.
Most of the layoffs are in the research and administration fields. About 150 people who schedule appointments will lose their jobs, as well as 150 in research administration and 110 researchers.
In the past year, the medical school lost about $8M in state funding and upwards of $16M in payments from Jackson.
Recently consultants from PricewaterhouseCoopers were brought in to study UM’s medical school operation, finding “duplication” in some administrative, which according to Shalala, is a reason UM, from top to bottom, will take “a whole layer out”.
There’s much more to this story, for those who care to read up on it. The point of posting in this blog was to merely offer our condolences to the many members of this U Family who will soon be out of work. These are people with families, mortgages and heart. The loss of one’s job or career is right up there with the effects of death and divorce. It’s stressful, it shatters your self-worth and it leave you feeling helpless and alone.
From all of us at allCanes, we wish you the best in your future endeavors and hope all of you land on your feet.
The republican senate can ok a new university and poor money into it for J D Alexander but cuts back money from a place that has led the nation in spinal core injury research.Im a quad that lost everyting from a m/c accident.They said I would never walk again.Thanks to the U’s invention of new machines I can get up and walk.I still wobble but Im up thanks to the U and the VAHosptial in Tampa! Remember this special interest run goverment in tallahasseeat election time.Its time to return the state to the people!
Our politicians while taking massive amounts of PAC money from foreign MD organizations have failed miserably when it comes to producing enough American Physicians.This is just another example of this. While bringing in foreigners who are procedure happy and costing Medicare billions a great many of these imports are poorly trained and culturally very different particularly in their treatment of women.
Also to ease the doctor shortage white coats have been put on PAs and Nurse practitioners with minimal diagnostic training and little to no supervision.
As a UM med school grad its sad to see what is going on.
I feel for anyone who gets layed off in this economy. I hope they get as much advance notice as possible so that they can plan, and try to find something else as soon as their employment ends with UM.
Terrible news. I pray and hope all those getting laid off Land on their feet quickly. Best of luck to all.