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By Ohio Public Radio
11/23/2009 11:18:27 AM

Ohio's 175 hospitals are making cutbacks and planning even more, as they brace for a new tax to hit them. November 30th, the hospitals have to pay the first installment of the tax that Ohio legislators approved to raise an estimated 718 million dollars over the next two years. Tiffany Himmelreich is with the Ohio Hospital Association. She says one in five hospitals in the state are expecting to lay off additional employees; half are planning to leave job vacancies unfilled; 2 in 5 hospitals are considering service cuts; half are planning to delay expansions; and two-thirds are cutting costs in other ways such as reducing employee benefits and freezing wages. The hospital association says these pending cutbacks will be on top of cuts that have already been made in the past year or so. Nearly half of the hospitals already have laid off staff and two-thirds have not filled job vacancies.

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