06/19/2025
It’s a challenging time in healthcare. Insurance companies have made it that way. There’s no money in pulmonary rehab or diabetes education- not because patients don’t need them but because insurance doesn’t want to pay for it.
We have to get insurance companies out of our healthcare. We have to make better choices for ourselves.
HOSPITAL LAYOFFS: Garnet Health is laying off 42 employees and reducing some of their hospital services as part of a company restructuring.
Representatives for the hospital in the town of Wallkill say the layoffs are less than one percent of the total workforce systemwide and come during a “challenging” healthcare climate with no immediate signs of reprieve.
The company announced on Tuesday that their outpatient pulmonary rehabilitation and outpatient diabetes services will no longer be offered, and the medical center’s trauma program will transition from a level two to a level three trauma center.
“I share this news with a deep and personal sadness,” says Jonathan Schiller, president and CEO of Garnet Health. “This restructuring and reduction in force is in no way about the performance of individuals. Instead, it is the direct result of diminishing federal reimbursement and cuts impacting Garnet Health’s current and projected financial sustainability. To keep operations at an optimum performance level, we had to carefully weigh what would make the biggest impact on the health system’s financial well-being while ensuring the smallest impact to our patients, their families and the communities we serve.”
News 12 is told all impacted employees have been notified and severance packages have been provided to those who are eligible.
(📷 credit: Garnet)