New Jersey’s Bergen Regional Medical Center Blames Layoffs on Reimbursement Reductions for Charity Care & Management Structure Preventing Managed Care Contracts

OPEN MINDS Weekly News Wire – Strategic Health Care News New Jersey’s Bergen Regional Medical Center announced plans to cut up to 50 non-direct patient care positions on December 21, 2010. In a statement about the layoffs, spokesperson Donnalee Corrieri, vice president of marketing and public relations for the medical center, attributed the need for cutbacks to inadequate federal and state reimbursement reductions for charity care and to contracting restrictions imposed by the Bergen County Improvement Authority (BCIA). Bergen Regional is a safety net hospital offering medical and mental health care, and is one of the largest providers of . . .