Healing Words

We heard through the grapevine someone at Arkansas Children’s Hospital was less than pleased with our item about that fine group in the last edition.

We basically wondered if ACH’s recently projected shortfall in net income would hurt its standing the 75th best employer in the country, according to Fortune magazine’s website. It turns out the folks at Fortune still think highly of ACH.

At least that’s what we’re led to believe given ACH’s inclusion on yet another Fortune list. This one recognized 15 employers who have “survived the Great Recession while staying loyal to their workers” and, as of mid-January, have never had a layoff.

Here’s the Fortune skinny on ACH: “The hospital reduced overtime and premium pay, reduced work hours and offered voluntary unpaid time off to help avoid layoffs during the recession, which is still causing aftershocks. ‘We are still weathering the recession,’ said a spokesman. ‘For the first time in many years we have been impacted with a lower in-patient census. We have always been able to flex our staffing to meet patient needs and this has worked quite effectively for us during this time.'”