Citing financial challenges due to COVID-19, Greenville, N.C.-based Vidant Health said it will reduce compensation for executives and staff through furloughs, salary reductions, and schedule and shift adjustments, effective April 26.

New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health is giving front-line staff responding to the COVID-19 pandemic a $2,500 lump-sum payment and a week of paid time off. 

About 1 in 5 physicians have experienced a furlough or pay cut during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new survey from physician recruiting firm Merritt Hawkins.

Eligible Yale New Haven (Conn.) Health system employees will receive a payment to recognize their work during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to an internal memo obtained by Becker's Hospital Review.

All 60 members of the executive team at Houston-based Texas Children's Hospital have taken a 20 percent pay cut amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the hospital announced April 22.

Senior executives at hundreds of public U.S. companies have adjusted their salaries as pay cuts, furloughs or layoffs affect non-managerial workers amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Ronald Rittenmeyer, the executive chairman and CEO of Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare, saw his 2019 compensation increase more than 62 percent in 2019, boosted mainly by year-over-year growth in stock awards, according to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. 

Geisinger President and CEO Jaewon Ryu, MD, and the rest of the Danville, Pa.-based health system's executive team have volunteered to take pay cuts and donate the funds to an employee emergency assistance fund. 

The CEO and vice presidents at West Virginia University Medicine will take salary cuts as the Morgantown-based health system's hospitals face "significant and unsustainable financial strain" due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to information the health system shared with Becker's Hospital Review April 9. 

The CEO and executive leadership team at Mount Sinai Health System will take pay cuts to help offset the significant COVID-19 costs the New York City-based health system is facing.

Envision Healthcare said it has cut salaries of its senior leaders in half and plans to cut salaries of nonclinical employees and furlough them.  

Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems' top executives are giving up part of their compensation for the remainder of this year, according to an April 8 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. 

About 12,200 employees of Houston-based Texas Children's Hospital will receive a special stipend to assist them amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the hospital's CEO announced.

Alteon Health, one of the largest medical staffing companies in the U.S., reversed its decision April 5 to cut pay and retirement benefits for its physicians and other medical workers, according to ProPublica. 

The leaders of two health systems on the East Coast are donating their pay or taking a pay cut to address financial strains caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The CEO of Partners HealthCare and presidents from the Boston-based system's hospitals told front-line workers they will not be getting hazard pay during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Mass Live.

The University of Illinois Hospital in Chicago and its nurses union have agreed on pay for nurses working during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Health systems and their associated employed provider networks are beset with immediate financial losses, and future financial uncertainty as elective care was essentially eliminated by the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic in the United States.

In an email to 160,000 employees, Ascension's CEO said the St. Louis-based hospital system will protect their pay if they're temporarily assigned to different jobs or unable to work for reasons linked to COVID-19.

New York City-based NewYork-Presbyterian will give a $1,250 bonus to employees who have worked in or supported the COVID-19 front lines, according to the health system.