UVM Health Network announces sweeping cuts to programs, jobs
Dozens of employees will lose their jobs and several programs will end as part of $122 million in cuts announced Thursday by the UVM Health Network to stay afloat. It comes as the network and Vermont health regulators Thursday escalated their ongoing feud over cost containment and budgets.
“Not delivering care to patients who need care is not the way to get to our cost containment issue,” said UVM Health Network CEO Sunny Eappen, in announcing the cuts.
The plan includes more than $18 million in administrative expense cuts and additional saving measures that would reduce the number of patients who stay overnight at the UVM Medical Center; limit regional incoming non-emergency patient transfers; eliminate surgical transplant services at UVMMC; end UVM Health Network staffing and operation of kidney dialysis clinics in Newport, Rutland, and St. Albans; consolidate family medicine and rehabilitation services at the Central Vermont Medical Center; and close the in-patient psychiatric ward at CVMC.