The state of Maryland will not fire nearly 70 healthcare workers as planned, according to a Baltimore Sun report.
The workers, 57 of whom work at Springfield Hospital Center in Sykesville, Md., were scheduled to be fired and replaced by private contractors under the budget submitted by Gov. Larry Hogan (R) to the General Assembly in January, according to the report. However, that plan has been canceled.
Given the state's projected $400 million surplus this year, lawmakers took another look at the state's plan and "decided to go in another direction," Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene spokesman Christopher Garrett told the Baltimore Sun. That other direction involved setting aside $1.7 million and making cuts from other places in the budge tto keep the workers at their jobs.
Eleven workers at the John L. Gildner Regional Institute for Children and Adolescents in Rockville, Md., who prepare and distribute food to residential patients at the mental health facilities, will also keep their jobs, the report states.
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