{"id":195594,"date":"2020-03-31T09:49:11","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T14:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=195594"},"modified":"2020-03-31T09:49:11","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T14:49:11","slug":"essentia-health-500-employees-on-unpaid-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=195594","title":{"rendered":"Essentia Health: 500 employees on unpaid leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DULUTH, Minn. (AP) \u2014 Essentia Health has placed 500 employees on unpaid leave as it deals with the financial impact of canceled surgeries and appointments because of the coronavirus pandemic. The move affects about 3% of the health care provider&#8217;s workforce and involves non-medical staff. The Duluth, Minnesota-based health care provider says it&#8217;s projecting a 20% to 40% decrease in revenue due to fewer patients because of COVID-19. In a news release, Essentia said staffing levels will be evaluated continually. Some states have mandated an end to elective surgeries and nonessential appointments in order to deal with COVID-19 cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DULUTH, Minn. (AP) \u2014 Essentia Health has placed 500 employees on unpaid leave as it deals with the financial impact of canceled surgeries and appointments because of the coronavirus pandemic. The move affects about 3% of the health care provider&#8217;s workforce and involves non-medical staff. The Duluth, Minnesota-based health care [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=195594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195595,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195594\/revisions\/195595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=195594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=195594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=195594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}