{"id":5215,"date":"2013-02-07T12:23:01","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T18:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=5215"},"modified":"2013-02-07T12:23:01","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T18:23:01","slug":"hadassah-workers-protest-hiring-of-consultant-to-easy-money-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/hadassah-workers-protest-hiring-of-consultant-to-easy-money-woes\/","title":{"rendered":"Hadassah workers protest hiring of consultant to easy money woes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TEL AVIV (JTA) &#8212; Some 300 employees of the Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem protested the hospital\u2019s decision to bring in a consultant to help relieve its debt.<\/p>\n<p>Hadassah will hire PwC Kesselman &amp; Kesselman, Israel\u2019s branch of the international accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers, for $4 million in its bid to ease a budget deficit of more than $54 million. The firm will work inhouse at the hospital for three months and provide advice on creating a plan to reach a balanced budget, according to The Marker, the business publication of the Israeli daily Haaretz.<\/p>\n<p>The workers who protested Wednesday are concerned about the consultant&#8217;s price tag and layoffs that may result from the plan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not the time to get external services from an American company that doesn\u2019t understand the health-care system in Israel,\u201d an employees\u2019 committee official who wished to remain anonymous told JTA. \u201cThis is time to cut the deficit, not increase it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The hospital\u2019s director-general, Ehud Kokia, resigned last month; no successor has been chosen.<\/p>\n<p>Hadassah, the women\u2019s Zionist organization that owns the hospital, in a statement to The Marker said it was confident in Kesselman &amp; Kesselman\u2019s abilities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe plan presented by PwC Kesselman &amp; Kesselman showed the company\u2019s experience in hospital rehabilitation efforts in Europe and the U.S.,\u201d the statement read. \u201cThe goal is to build a rehabilitation plan together with the hospital\u2019s staffs that will bring the hospital to balance, economic stability and efficiency while maintaining the level of service given to patients, development, research and teaching.\u201d<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Hadassah%20workers%20protest%20hiring%20of%20consultant%20to%20easy%20money%20woes\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[1926,68,8790,8788,1925],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5215"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5216,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5215\/revisions\/5216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}