In response to financial pressures and workforce challenges, Mercy Health and Centennial Medical Group in Roseburg are eliminating 18 jobs primarily in leadership support roles. This restructuring effort is aimed at establishing a more stable financial foundation that will enable the organization to expand rather than reduce patient care services.
With about 1,300 employees currently working at the hospital and medical group, this reduction in workforce follows a similar action taken last spring when 50 full-time employees lost their jobs at Mercy Health. In response, hospital leadership has been encouraging displaced employees to consider applying for other job openings within the organization or elsewhere.
Mercy Health’s leadership regularly evaluates operational performance to ensure the long-term sustainability of the organization. As part of the restructuring process, improvements in scheduling efficiencies, natural employee attrition, agency elimination, and reducing contract services will be implemented. It is not clear how many additional positions have been impacted by these changes.
Russell Woolley, CEO and President of Mercy Health emphasized that the main goal of the restructuring is to improve financial stability so that they can expand their services in the future rather than cut them back. Currently, Mercy Health operates as a 174-bed medical center.
