Hospital layoffs

More than two years into the pandemic, hospital budgets are beginning to crack. One of the biggest drivers of financial shortfalls has been the cost to find workers.

The hospitals received help from federal funding and Medicaid expansion during the public health emergency.

A hospital on Florida's Panhandle says it will lay off 800 employees — nearly half its staff — because it suffered such serious damage from Hurricane...

A large number of layoffs are in the works at a Florida Panhandle hospital that was badly damaged by Hurricane Michael.