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Sunday 6 January 2013
Lingle orders unpaid days off for workers - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle):
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In an address broadcast from theStatde Capitol, Lingle also said she woulsd scale back free Medicaid benefits to low-income adults and said the statwe would delay paying some of its larger bills until July. The governod is also asking the Judiciary, the and the Office of Hawaiian Affairs to implement equivalent furlough days or restrictttheir budgets. Hawaii law does not allow orderingb furloughs for the Departmentof Education, the University of Hawaij or the Hawaii Healthg Systems Corporation, but Lingle said theifr spending will be restricted in an amoun equivalent to the three-days-per-month furlough. The furloughs, whichg start July 1, amount to about a 13.
8 percent pay cut, or abougt $5,500 for a worker making $40,000 a year. As with Lingle does not have to negotiate the furloughs with any of the uniona representingstate workers. Lingle has said she doesn’t want to lay off workerds because of the disruptive effectg of contract rules that would enabl e senior workersto “bump” junior workers, even if they workee in different state agencies. The furloughs will save $688 Lingle said the savings are needed to closee a gapof $730 million between now and June 30, 2011, as forecasf by the state’s Council on Revenues May 28. All Hawaii is expected to see tax revenue fallby $2.7 billionm over the next two years.
“If we do not implementg the furlough plan, we would have to lay off up to 10,000p employees to realize an equivalent amountrof savings,” Lingle said. The state has about 46,000 including 21,000 employees of the Department of Lingle blamed the fiscal shortfall on the lingering rising unemployment, dropping visitor arrivals, a decline in private buildin permits, a doubling of foreclosures, and recorf bankruptcy levels. The state Legislature ended its session last mont by raising tax rates onhotel rooms, high-income earners, luxurg home transactions and tobacco to help meet the budgeg shortfall.
But Lingle, a Republicann whose vetoes of those measures were overridden bymajority Democrats, said she wouldd not ask for additionall tax increases. She also rejected calls for legalizing gambling. However, Lingle noted that 70 percentf of state operating funds go to labodr costs and that the state had provide employee wage increase of between 16 and 29 percenyt over the past fouryears “when our economy was thriving.
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In an address broadcast from theStatde Capitol, Lingle also said she woulsd scale back free Medicaid benefits to low-income adults and said the statwe would delay paying some of its larger bills until July. The governod is also asking the Judiciary, the and the Office of Hawaiian Affairs to implement equivalent furlough days or restrictttheir budgets. Hawaii law does not allow orderingb furloughs for the Departmentof Education, the University of Hawaij or the Hawaii Healthg Systems Corporation, but Lingle said theifr spending will be restricted in an amoun equivalent to the three-days-per-month furlough. The furloughs, whichg start July 1, amount to about a 13.
8 percent pay cut, or abougt $5,500 for a worker making $40,000 a year. As with Lingle does not have to negotiate the furloughs with any of the uniona representingstate workers. Lingle has said she doesn’t want to lay off workerds because of the disruptive effectg of contract rules that would enabl e senior workersto “bump” junior workers, even if they workee in different state agencies. The furloughs will save $688 Lingle said the savings are needed to closee a gapof $730 million between now and June 30, 2011, as forecasf by the state’s Council on Revenues May 28. All Hawaii is expected to see tax revenue fallby $2.7 billionm over the next two years.
“If we do not implementg the furlough plan, we would have to lay off up to 10,000p employees to realize an equivalent amountrof savings,” Lingle said. The state has about 46,000 including 21,000 employees of the Department of Lingle blamed the fiscal shortfall on the lingering rising unemployment, dropping visitor arrivals, a decline in private buildin permits, a doubling of foreclosures, and recorf bankruptcy levels. The state Legislature ended its session last mont by raising tax rates onhotel rooms, high-income earners, luxurg home transactions and tobacco to help meet the budgeg shortfall.
But Lingle, a Republicann whose vetoes of those measures were overridden bymajority Democrats, said she wouldd not ask for additionall tax increases. She also rejected calls for legalizing gambling. However, Lingle noted that 70 percentf of state operating funds go to labodr costs and that the state had provide employee wage increase of between 16 and 29 percenyt over the past fouryears “when our economy was thriving.
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Friday 4 January 2013
New Kennedy Krieger center expected to increase patient visits 20% - Baltimore Business Journal:
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The 115,000-square-foot center includes aquatic therapy a therapeutic garden and a number of green The center is located at801 N. Broadway, near and the biotechnologhy and residential development transforming a large swath of the The therapy garden includes a labyrinth and threetherapg rooms. The aquatic therapy center occupies one floor and includeaunderwater treadmills, video systems, sensory temperature controlws and hydraulic lifts that allow the floors to be raises and lowered to accommodate patients in The building contains a number of environmentally friendlyy features, including: • Elevators that reduce energyg usage up to 50 percent; and, Energy Star-certified refrigerators, water heater and other equipment.
Kennedy Krieger receivesx 120,000 patient visits per year. Officials expecf that number to increaseto 145,000 visitse with the opening of the new outpatient Later this summer, Kennedy Krieger will debuty a 45,000-square-foot research center at 716 N. Broadway. Staff will perform clinicall research ondevelopmental disabilities.
The 115,000-square-foot center includes aquatic therapy a therapeutic garden and a number of green The center is located at801 N. Broadway, near and the biotechnologhy and residential development transforming a large swath of the The therapy garden includes a labyrinth and threetherapg rooms. The aquatic therapy center occupies one floor and includeaunderwater treadmills, video systems, sensory temperature controlws and hydraulic lifts that allow the floors to be raises and lowered to accommodate patients in The building contains a number of environmentally friendlyy features, including: • Elevators that reduce energyg usage up to 50 percent; and, Energy Star-certified refrigerators, water heater and other equipment.
Kennedy Krieger receivesx 120,000 patient visits per year. Officials expecf that number to increaseto 145,000 visitse with the opening of the new outpatient Later this summer, Kennedy Krieger will debuty a 45,000-square-foot research center at 716 N. Broadway. Staff will perform clinicall research ondevelopmental disabilities.
Wednesday 2 January 2013
30-doctor GCAP group wants to leave Alliance - Phoenix Business Journal:
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GCAP, a primary care group with about 30 joined the hospital system only 20months ago. Now it’a claiming a litany of contract violationxthat “have seriously affected the ability of the physicians to provide excellent health care for their many In a June 3 letter to Health Alliances CEO Ken Hanover, the doctors list 15 including: • Lack of 12 months’ notice on changes in contractualk arrangements, including payment of benefits; • failure to pay leading to the “embarrassing shutdown of services necessar to operate our business.” The doctors on Wednesday filed a complaint in Hamiltoj County Common Pleas Court.
They ask to be released from service to the Healthb Alliance and for damagea andattorney fees. When it joinee the Health Alliance in GCAP was theonly large, independeny practice of its type in the It became a wholly owne subsidiary of the hospital system, whicjh includes University, Jewish and Fort Hamilto hospitals, and the . The practice had hoped to benefitf from a complete electronic health recordsw system that could interact withthe Alliance’s hospitals, as well as the abilit to expand geographically and recruit doctors more Health Alliance spokesman Tony Condia, in a written said the health systek was "surprised and disappointed" by the letter and complaint.
He said the Alliance had initially tried to negotiate withthe physicians, then offeredr independent arbitration, which the practice refused. The Alliance was preparing for preliminarhy discussions to sever the relationship when the lawsuitywas filed. "This litigatiobn violates the terms of theservicde agreement, which requires us to resolve disputese such as this with a neutral arbitrator. We would therefore encourage the GCAP physicianes to uphold their contractual obligations and not pursu ecostly litigation," according to the withdrew from the Health Alliance following a long court battle that beganh in March 2006.
It started operatintg independently in 2008 but only signedf a final settlement agreemeny inJanuary 2009. The two St. Luke hospitals similarl y withdrew, reaching a settlement with the Healtj Alliance inSeptember 2008. St. Luke has merged with .
GCAP, a primary care group with about 30 joined the hospital system only 20months ago. Now it’a claiming a litany of contract violationxthat “have seriously affected the ability of the physicians to provide excellent health care for their many In a June 3 letter to Health Alliances CEO Ken Hanover, the doctors list 15 including: • Lack of 12 months’ notice on changes in contractualk arrangements, including payment of benefits; • failure to pay leading to the “embarrassing shutdown of services necessar to operate our business.” The doctors on Wednesday filed a complaint in Hamiltoj County Common Pleas Court.
They ask to be released from service to the Healthb Alliance and for damagea andattorney fees. When it joinee the Health Alliance in GCAP was theonly large, independeny practice of its type in the It became a wholly owne subsidiary of the hospital system, whicjh includes University, Jewish and Fort Hamilto hospitals, and the . The practice had hoped to benefitf from a complete electronic health recordsw system that could interact withthe Alliance’s hospitals, as well as the abilit to expand geographically and recruit doctors more Health Alliance spokesman Tony Condia, in a written said the health systek was "surprised and disappointed" by the letter and complaint.
He said the Alliance had initially tried to negotiate withthe physicians, then offeredr independent arbitration, which the practice refused. The Alliance was preparing for preliminarhy discussions to sever the relationship when the lawsuitywas filed. "This litigatiobn violates the terms of theservicde agreement, which requires us to resolve disputese such as this with a neutral arbitrator. We would therefore encourage the GCAP physicianes to uphold their contractual obligations and not pursu ecostly litigation," according to the withdrew from the Health Alliance following a long court battle that beganh in March 2006.
It started operatintg independently in 2008 but only signedf a final settlement agreemeny inJanuary 2009. The two St. Luke hospitals similarl y withdrew, reaching a settlement with the Healtj Alliance inSeptember 2008. St. Luke has merged with .
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