Report: Health care union upset over layoffs at Fatima, RWMC

APPROXIMATELY 30 employees are being laid off at Roger Williams Medical Center and Our Lady of Fatima Hospital.  / COURTESY ROGER WILLIAMS MEDICAL CENTER
APPROXIMATELY 30 employees are being laid off at Roger Williams Medical Center and Our Lady of Fatima Hospital. / COURTESY ROGER WILLIAMS MEDICAL CENTER

PROVIDENCE – While a union representing health care workers is upset about approximately 30 positions being eliminated at Our Lady of Fatima Hospital and Roger Williams Medical Center, a spokesman for the hospitals said the layoffs are a response to changing market conditions.

WJAR-TV NBC 10 reported that United Nurses and Allied Professionals Local 5110 said the owner of Our Lady of Fatima Hospital in North Providence and Roger Williams Medical Center in Providence is laying off 30 employees and freezing another 20 vacant positions.
“Regrettably, this is the fourth layoff executed by Prospect CharterCARE since 2014 that has left close to 100 hard-working employees without a job,” a statement from UNAP said.

R. Otis Brown, spokesman for CharterCARE Health Partners, released the following statement:

“The UNAP statement is misleading in that it fails to note the more than 185 new jobs that CharterCARE has created in the past two years. These new jobs were the result of a more than $30 million capital investment in our two hospitals for renovations, new equipment and medical technology, as well as new clinical programs we have created to meet the changing needs of our community. … This recent adjustment in staffing is an effort to align our operations with changing market conditions and was done without compromising our ability to provide high-quality care, safety and value to our patients.”

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