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Healthcare jobs are expected to increase over the next year in many regions, but hospitals are actually eliminating nursing jobs in Connecticut.
Many hospitals are still operating in the red and continue to restructure to account for loss of patients and funds.

Patient volume is declining and funding has been cut all around. Mass layoffs are still commonplace at hospitals around the country.
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The House of Representatives have approved a plan to bail out the financially troubled University of Connecticut Healthcare Center, a bill that could potentially create or save hundreds of healthcare jobs in Connecticut (click here).

The new plan could improve the center’s 35-year-old John Dempsey Hospital.

According to the Hartford Courant.com, after three hours of debate that ended shortly before 9 p.m., the House voted 109-34 for the measure. There was bipartisan support, though some Republicans and fiscally conservative Democrats voted against the plan after questioning whether an expensive new patient tower is needed at the hospital campus in Farmington.

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Apria Healthcare, a company that distributes diabetic and respiratory supplies to patients in Connecticut and across the nation, has said that it will lay off 15 workers by the end of April, thereby eliminating several healthcare jobs in CT.

The reason is unclear, according to HartfordBusiness.com.

The announcement comes at a time when Connecticut jobs are on the decline.

Apria employs more than 11,000 people in 504 branch offices in the United States. It serves more than 1 million patients a year, the Web site says. The Blackstone Group, a big New York-based private equity investment firm, bought Apria in 2008.

According to Tampa Bay Online.com, the company has been “restructuring its operations and outsourcing some work overseas.”

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Although the medical industry is one that usually continues to grow, despite the economy, CT healthcare jobs are on the decline.

The State of Connecticut saw its first round of significant job losses in the healthcare industry in more than 10 years during Q2 of this year, according to the state Department of Labor. Since March, the state has lost 1,800 healthcare jobs, a decrease of almost .75 percent.

Even though Connecticut’s healthcare industry has added 3,000 jobs since June 2008, the industry has been seeing a month-to-month decline in positions. During June, the state lost 1,200 healthcare jobs, with losses spread among various sub-sectors.

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