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‘Who’s next?’: Layoffs at St. Joseph’s hospital leave staff worried about workloads, safety

AFTER 41 YEARS at St. Joseph’s Medical Center, Brenda Savio had just 90 days to figure out where she would go next. She had logged three, 12-hour shifts a week for more than four decades as a clerical secretary. When the layoff call came in June, Savio said it was like she was “hung out […] The post ‘Who’s next?’: Layoffs at St. Joseph’s hospital leave staff worried about workloads, safety appeared first on Local News Matters .

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AFTER 41 YEARS at St. Joseph’s Medical Center, Brenda Savio had just 90 days to figure out where she would go next. She had logged three, 12-hour shifts a week for more than four decades as a clerical secretary. When the layoff call came in June, Savio said it was like she was “hung out […] The post ‘Who’s next?’: Layoffs at St. Joseph’s hospital leave staff worried about workloads, safety appeared first on Local News Matters .

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According to Local News Matters’s source item, ‘Who’s next?’: Layoffs at St. Joseph’s hospital leave staff worried about workloads, safety, AFTER 41 YEARS at St. Joseph’s Medical Center, Brenda Savio had just 90 days to figure out where she would go next. She had logged three, 12-hour shifts a week for more than four decades as a clerical secretary. When the layoff call came in June, Savio said it was like she was “hung out […] The post ‘Who’s next?’: Layoffs at St. Joseph’s hospital leave staff worried about workloads, safety appeared first on Local News Matters .

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