One of the nation’s largest HMOs is laying off 530 employees in Southern California this weekend, including some in the Inland Empire, a company official confirmed Saturday.
Kaiser Permanente said the layoffs—constituting about eight-tenths of one percent of it employees—would be spread across its 65,700 employees and doctors working in offices and hospitals from Kern County to the Mexican border.
Under its union contracts, the laid-off employees who are in unions will get income and benefits for a year. Many may also be rehired next year, when Kaiser Permanente expects “significant membership growth.”
“Health care in America is in the midst of one of the most exciting and challenging times in its history, the firm said in a statement Saturday. “We have undertaken a series of cost-reduction initiatives to ensure we meet these changing dynamics, and they include some position eliminations.
“It is important to note that none of these position eliminations will in any way jeopardize the quality of patient care, which is always our primary focus,” the corporate statement said.
Nationwide, the health care industry is undergoing structural changes to adopt to the new federal Affordable Health Care Act—commonly called Obamacare.
Exact layoff locations were not available, a spokeswoman said, because some of the affected employees may be offered other vacant positions as it makes staffing adjustments next week.
A union official told the Inland Daily Bulletin that the laid-off employees will be able to take advantage of a retraining and education program that will keep them paid and insured for up to one year.
-City News Service
BTW- Happy Thanksgiving to you, Roy and Dave......LOL. And your not a conservative right....LOL LOL LOL LOL!!!!
12:04 pm on Thursday, November 22, 2012 "I'm gonna throw out the olive branch here, Jeff. I WOULD love to know who you think I am but we'll leave that for another day. I would never wish any harm to you or your family and I sincerely hope you enjoy your day." It's like a very special Thanksgiving edition of the Patch. I am going to get all teary eyed!
Thank you for your class warfare, for your bull-headedness on taxes, your contempt for the poor and middle-class, your racism, your bigotry, your cluelessness about gender politics, your sneering hostility toward immigrants and minorities. On this Thanksgiving Day, a personal request: Please don't change. You help elect minorities, women, liberal politicians into office, keep up the good work. Remember, all the corruption you talk about on the local level, in City Council, City officials, County officials are ALL conservative Republicans.......and it leaves me laughing my back side off. Reply Ethan Edwards 8:45 am on Thursday, November 22, 2012 Just think Conservos.......you can start claiming there is a "War on Christmas" today as thousands flock to the shopping mall and start hanging lights. Reply Carl Petersen III 9:03 am on Thursday, November 22, 2012 Ethan Edwards 8:45 am on Thursday, November 22, 2012 "Just think Conservos.......you can start claiming there is a "War on Christmas" today as thousands flock to the shopping mall and start hanging lights." Americans would never fight a war against a holiday that gives them a day off of work. Carl Petersen III 9:02 am on Thursday, November 22, 2012 Ethan Edwards 8:12 am on Thursday, November 22, 2012 "Carl.......you have a wonderful holiday" You too! Reply : That wil work for me...
"America isn't easy. America is advanced citizenship. You've gotta want it bad, 'cause it's gonna put up a fight. It's gonna say, "You want free speech? Let's see you acknowledge a man whose words make your blood boil, who's standing center stage and advocating at the top of his lungs that which you would spend a lifetime opposing at the top of yours." You want to claim this land as the land of the free? Then the symbol of your country cannot just be a flag. The symbol also has to be one of its citizens exercising his right to burn that flag in protest. Now show me that, defend that, celebrate that in your classrooms. "Then you can stand up and sing about the land of the free.... "We have serious problems to solve, and we need serious people to solve them. And whatever your particular problem is, I promise you Mitt Romney is not the least bit interested in solving it. He is interested in two things, and two things only: making you afraid of it, and telling you who's to blame for it. That, ladies and gentlemen, is how you win elections."
You are an uneducated racist, and a bigot, not to mention the most uneducated ignoramus on the patch. Wow you stating I am uneducated, a little advice moron, post your own ugly face of hate on here, but leave the baby's picture off the patch. Because you are such a hateful racist and bigot people do not like you. You stated in one of your comments people are threatening you, and yet you post your baby's picture. I have no idea why anyone would even bother with you, you're ignorant as evidenced by your comments and actions, but some people in this world are wacky like you. Stay off the patch and help your wife clean the house, troll.
7:24 pm on Friday, November 23, 2012 "Hi Sam/Dennis/Ethan, have you changed your underwear yet? You are an uneducated racist, and a bigot, not to mention the most uneducated ignoramus on the patch. Wow you stating I am uneducated, a little advice moron, post your own ugly face of hate on here, but leave the baby's picture off the patch. Because you are such a hateful racist and bigot people do not like you. You stated in one of your comments people are threatening you, and yet you post your baby's picture. I have no idea why anyone would even bother with you, you're ignorant as evidenced by your comments and actions, but some people in this world are wacky like you. Stay off the patch and help your wife clean the house, troll." Apparently you were never taught the lesson that if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it at all. This post contains nothing to support,condem or respond to anything that has been posted here. It doesn't add anything new to the subject of "Kaiser Permanente Lays Off 530 Employees." The only thing it does is seems to do is look to get a reaction out of Ethan. (continued...)
Interestingly enough, the last thing you call Ethan is a troll. A nice definition of troll comes from http://micechat.com/forums/faq.php?s=&do=search&q=trolling&titleandtext=1&match=all. It says "So you want to irritate another board member by posting a message or image that will upset them on purpose? Well then, you must be living under a bridge cause you're a troll. A 'troll' is the term used for an individual who post messages to delibrately upset others. How else would you define your post?
Then Mr. wonderful read his postings to AG and Diana. If you don't want to do that than shut your hypocritical mouth up and get a life. If I was as weird as you I would copy and paste and stalk trash mouth Dennis/Sam/Ethan's comments. I know hypocrite, his trash mouth matters not, to stalking losers with no life like you. Keep sticking up for trash mouth it shows what a loser you are, and keep responding to me, it proves you have no life.
I love the no life part too......LOL. Look at the amounts of posts Julie Dawson has made. No, Julie, us Democrats and Liberals and Moderates kicked your behind.....saw a recent picture of your hero pumping gas in LaJolla......LOL LOL!!! Our candidate and GREAT President is sitting in the White House runing our country,......LOL!!!!! Makes us feel so good and safe.....how are you feeling being a loser....in a landslide....to us???
10:55 pm on Friday, November 23, 2012 "Thank you Daddy Carol, now can you please scold Dennis he used profanity, to be specific POS, it means piece of sh!@." If you think that someone vioated the Patch's Terms of Service, I suggest that you report them.
10:55 pm on Friday, November 23, 2012 "If I was as weird as you I would copy and paste and stalk trash mouth Dennis/Sam/Ethan's comments." Or if you weren't lazy and had the computer skills.
11:59 pm on Friday, November 23, 2012 "The funny thing about most of you liberals is that you think you are smarter than everyone else. You are not. Arent we all supposed to be equal? isn't that part of your rant? Equality???" I know that I am not smarter than everyone else, just most of the Conservitives that post on this blog. It isn't much of an accomplishment. Believing in tolerance and equality doesn't mean that we need to accept lies and hypocracy. When I see these, I'll call them out.
Ethan continues to show everyone how dumb he is by calling names. Any insults from you two could not possibly offend anyone, you are both idiots.
Seriously Ethan/Sam Dennis, you truly are uneducated and ignorant, please take your baby's picture off here. I feel sorry for your baby, no innocent child deserves an ignorant father like you. I know spewing your hate makes you feel better, but being proud of your ignorance, shows how truly dumb you are.
3:14 pm on Saturday, November 24, 2012 "Carol pretends to miss the point, unable to admit he is foolish for defending trash mouth, and unable to admit he is a hypocrite" From Dictionary.com: "hyp·o·crite noun 1. a person who pretends to have virtues, moral or religious beliefs, principles, etc., that he or she does not actually possess, especially a person whose actions belie stated beliefs. 2. a person who feigns some desirable or publicly approved attitude, especially one whose private life, opinions, or statements belie his or her public statements." julie dawson 3:14 pm on Saturday, November 24, 2012 "Ethan continues to show everyone how dumb he is by calling names." julie dawson 2:33 pm on Wednesday, November 21, 2012 “What wisdom you have Ethan wowwwwww an older white male, you do nothing for the poor you are but a creep.” julie dawson “Hi Sam/Dennis/Ethan, have you changed your underwear yet? You are an uneducated racist, and a bigot, not to mention the most uneducated ignoramus on the patch.” julie dawson 3:14 pm on Saturday, November 24, 2012 "you are both idiots."