{"id":23922,"date":"2013-06-05T15:55:51","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T19:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=23922"},"modified":"2013-06-05T15:56:47","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T19:56:47","slug":"hma-cuts-employee-benefits-for-more-than-1400-in-southwest-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2013\/06\/hma-cuts-employee-benefits-for-more-than-1400-in-southwest-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"HMA Cuts Employee Benefits For More Than 1,400 In Southwest Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-23033\" title=\"hma-new\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/hma-new.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"84\" \/>Health Management Associates,\u00a0, the for-profit owner of Lehigh Regional Medical Center two Physicians Regional hospitals in Collier County, has announced benefit reductions for its 42,000 U.S. employees in response to cuts in Medicare payments.<\/p>\n<p>The cuts affect more than 1,400 locally and include a freeze on vacation accruals until October, a reduction in the company\u2019s 401(k) retirement benefit match from 1.5 percent to 1 percent and pushing back merit raises until Jan. 1, 2014.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Company officials notified employees on Friday, an announcement made public this week. They primarily blamed the federal budget impasse known as the \u201csequestration\u201d for the reductions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(W)e were deeply disappointed when our nation\u2019s elected officials failed to achieve a balanced budget resulting in sequestration,\u201d said Scott Campbell, CEO of the Naples-based Physicians Regional Healthcare System, in a prepared comment. \u201cAs a result, hospitals throughout the country, including ours, are seeing reduced payment for services while the cost of care continues to increase.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health Management Associates,\u00a0, the for-profit owner of Lehigh Regional Medical Center two Physicians Regional hospitals in Collier County, has announced benefit reductions for its 42,000 U.S. employees in response to&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23922"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}