Girard Medical Center to lay off 100
Girard Medical Center will lay off about 100 people April 24, a few days after it permanently closes its Continuing Care Hospital, according to a notice filed with the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry.
Girard Medical Center will lay off about 100 people April 24, a few days after it permanently closes its Continuing Care Hospital, according to a notice filed with the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry.
Girard Medical Center, at Eighth Street and Girard Avenue, is part of the North Philadelphia Health System, which includes St. Joseph's Hospital at Girard and 16th Street. The medical center is a 168-bed long-term acute-care hospital, its Web site said.
"NPHS and its Girard Medical Center have been striving in these harsh economic times to maintain the operation of CCH," yesterday's notice said, adding that officials had met with other area hospitals to generate more referrals. "Unforeseeably, these steps did not prove fruitful."
Signed by top hospital officials, the notice said the action was necessary to protect the system's 1,300 other jobs.
No one from the hospital could be reached for comment today.
"I knew this was coming," said Henry Nicholas, president of District 1199C of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, the union that represents the workers.
Nicholas said the hospital suffered by being in a neighborhood where many of the people are uninsured.