The hospital's board is set to vote on the cost-cutting measures Tuesday morning. The moves include reducing weekend pay for nurses, increasing employees' share of their health insurance and cutting 15 to 20 workers.
Larry Webb, senior vice president and chief financial officer of the hospital's parent company, Athens Regional Health Services, says job cuts would be steeper without the reductions in spending. The hospital employees 2,500 full-time workers and 500 part-time employees.
Its expenses totaled more than $413 million this year.
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