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M Health
Fairview to
cut 500 jobs,
consider
hospital
closures amid
$80M shortfall
By Alia Paavola
M
inneapolis-based M Health
Fairview plans to cut about 500
jobs to address a looming budget
crisis, according to the Star Tribune. e
system also is considering scaling back or
ending services at some hospitals.
M Health Fairview, a newly merged and
branded system formed by Minneapolis-
based Fairview Health Services, University
of Minnesota and University of Minnesota
Physicians, is expected to have an $80 mil-
lion shortfall next year.
e layoffs, disclosed Nov. 22 in internal
memos, are one of several strategies that
emerged from a five-week series of "war
room" sessions to address the financial is-
sues at the newly created organization. e
joint clinical agreement between the three
organizations was announced in September
2018 and was finalized Jan. 1.
"e decision by Fairview to lay off em-
ployees is incredibly difficult," University
of Minnesota President Joan Gabel wrote
in an internal memo obtained by the Star
Tribune. "ere are sound financial reasons
why this action is necessary, but it does not
lessen the pain employees will feel or the
concern that patients may have due to this
news."
e system is considering reducing opera-
tions at Bethesda long-term care hospital
in St. Paul, Minn., and closing St. Joseph's
Hospital in St. Paul, according to the report.
Closing or reorganizing clinics is also on
the table, the report said.
e layoffs are expected to occur in early
2020. e system hopes to achieve most
of the job cuts by closing open positions
instead of cutting staff. n
