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Staff layoffs at Heights University Hospital draw calls to preserve site for medical use
Summary
Representatives for hospital employees told the council that hundreds of nursing jobs were being eliminated and urged the city to ensure property remains zoned for an acute-care hospital rather than redevelopment into nonmedical uses.
Business agent Ben Silva, representing registered nurses at Christ Hospital (now Heights University Hospital), told the council the hospital planned to lay off more than half of its nursing staff and reduce several clinical units, including the endoscopy and cardiology lab. Silva asked the council to ensure the hospital property’s zoning would preserve an acute-care medical use and prevent…
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