CHS faces strike at Pa. hospital
Posted on November 16, 2009 at 11:44 amService Employees International Union representatives have issued a strike notice at Pottstown Memorial Hospital, a Community Health Systems facility where the previous labor contract expired in August. The move comes after CHS officials appear to have gone AWOL.
Speaking at the press conference, hospital workers said their employer failed to “show up” at the three previous meetings in which negotiations were expected to continue. Roy Feick, a certified pharmacy technician at the hospital for five years, said CHS has shown “no respect for us at PMMC or the community of Pottstown … otherwise they would attend negotiations.
“We can’t negotiate with ourselves; we need CHS in the room,” he added.
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No hogs for Murfreesboro
Posted on November 5, 2009 at 7:54 am
Harley-Davidson officials have eliminated Murfreesboro and Shelbyville, Ind., from the short list of cities where it might move its 2,300-employee York, Pa., operations.
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Union turns up heat on CHS in Pennsylvania
Posted on October 28, 2009 at 11:22 amRepresentatives of the Service Employees International Union have presented a 400-person petition to officials at Pottstown Memorial Medical Center, a Community Health Systems hospital outside Philadelphia. The two parties are working to replace a contract that expired in August.
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Harley sets a timeline for ‘Boro decision
Posted on October 16, 2009 at 10:19 amExecutives at Harley-Davidson say they will likely choose what to do with their York, Pa., plant in December. Murfreesboro is in the running for the factory, which would bring with it some 2,000 jobs.
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Pennsylvania prepared to pay $20M for Harley
Posted on October 14, 2009 at 10:28 amGov. Ed Rendell said Pennsylvania has up to $20 million in incentives ready if Harley-Davidson officials will commit to sizable job growth at a retooled York plant that may move to Murfreesboro.
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CHS follows through in PA
Posted on October 12, 2009 at 10:35 amCommunity Health Systems is in the middle section of a $100 million-plus capital investment push at a number of its Pennsylvania hospitals. Some of the spending stems from a 2004 commitment, but good old demographic growth is playing its part, too.
The number of people living in communities around the hospital is expected to jump by 11 percent over the next two years, Davis said. The hospital has already experienced a 32 percent increase in admissions and a 16 percent increase in emergency room visits during the past seven years.
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Hopeful Harley noises from Pennsylvania
Posted on October 9, 2009 at 10:27 am
Harley-Davidson officials and union representatives say a plan to restructure the motorbike maker’s York, Pa., plant just might work. Murfreesboro is in the running for a new factory should it not.
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Pennsylvania budget woes could help Murfreesboro’s Harley push
Posted on September 15, 2009 at 12:18 pm
Pennsylvania state lawmakers have irked Gov. Ed Rendell by approving less than half of the economic development incentive money he had proposed. That, says the Keystone governor, won’t allow him to put together a package that will persuade Harley-Davidson to keep a 2,300-employee plant in the state. Murfreesboro is one of three other sites pitching to land the factory.
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New CEO for scrutinized Psych Solutions Philly hospital
Posted on September 8, 2009 at 10:12 am
Psychiatric Solutions has recruited Kenneth Glass to lead its majority-owned Friends Hospital, which earlier this year attracted regulatory attention after a patient’s suicide.
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Murfreesboro has just two competitors remaining in Harley race
Posted on September 1, 2009 at 7:27 am
Harley-Davidson officials have told Kansas City’s economic developers their city is no longer being considered for the possible relocation of a 2,300-employee manufacturing plant. That leaves Murfreesboro and two Shelbyvilles.
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Murfreesboro in the running for 2,000 Harley jobs
Posted on August 19, 2009 at 7:34 am
Harley-Davidson is scouting four cities — including Murfreesboro — as potential sites for its manufacturing facilities in near York, Pa., which employ about 2,300 people.
Klein said the visits are part of a two-path study in place, with one analyzing how to make the York County operations cost-effective where they are now, and another analyzing the best possible relocation opportunities.
Through the process, the four sites being visited this week came up for a number of reasons, but Klein did not get into specifics.
Psych Solutions replaces Philly hospital CEO
Posted on June 23, 2009 at 3:31 pmAfter more bad PR over alleged patient safety issues, Franklin-based Psychiatric Solutions has shown the door to the CEO of its Northeast Philadelphia hospital. A national search is underway.
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OHL teams with candy company
Posted on June 4, 2009 at 2:49 pmBrentwood-based third party logistics firm OHL has teamed with candy manufacturer Just Born to help run a newly purchased distribution center in Bethlehem Township, Pa.
By moving its operations to the 600,710 square-foot warehouse, Just Born predicts it will eliminate 500,000 miles a year in trucking trips between vendors and the company’s manufacturing facility in Bethlehem.
OHL has been hired to further consolidate Just Born’s nation shipping program in order to have less of an environmental impact. The new site is expected to go online in late 2009 and will employ 70 workers.
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Iasis teams with clinical tech venture
Posted on May 28, 2009 at 12:07 amThe local hospital operator will use Pennsylvania-based Precyse Solutions’ clinical documentation software and training services for the next two years.
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Local school operator set to lose big in Philly
Posted on May 20, 2009 at 12:13 am
Philadelphia administrators’ plans to overhaul their alternative schools system appears set to result in Nashville-based Community Education Partners losing its biggest contract and having to lay off more than 130 people.
Barbara Braman, a CEP senior vice president, said district officials met with CEP about the changes.
“I am saddened knowing the quality of the program and knowing the quality of the people who have served the families and children over the years,” she said. “We want to continue to serve this district as we go forward.”
District officials declined to say why CEP’s contract, which had been the largest for an alternative-education provider at $24 million, was being slashed. The state, which contributes some of the funding for alternative schools, asked the district to revamp its services, said Donna Cooper, Gov. Rendell’s secretary of policy and planning.
“All of the alternative-education providers are equally in need of doing a better job,” she said. “We have urged the school district to increase its oversight of the providers and their oversight of the contracts.”
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