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The healthcare industry cut 97% more jobs in the first half of 2023 compared to the same period in 2022, according to a July 6 report from executive outplacement firm Challenger, Gray, & Christmas.
The report mentioned an unnamed hospital that closed last month due to a cyberattack, which likely contributed to the healthcare job cuts. In June, St. Margaret’s Health in Spring Valley, Illinois, closed, and was the first hospital to publicly attribute a cyberattack to its closure, NBC News reported.
Market and economic conditions were cited as the reasons for the majority of job cuts across all US industries; the report didn’t detail the reasons for healthcare job cuts specifically, except for the NBC News Report.
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