Big changes are in the works at Southeast Alaska’s largest private employer.
The Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium, or SEARHC, has a hospital in Sitka, doctors in Juneau, a variety of clinics, and roughly 1,000 employees. The organization is working to recover from a $4 million loss in the last year. That has meant changes to benefits, and a hiring slow-down, among other things.
New Chief Executive Charles Clement is behind a lot of those changes.
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Ed Ronco is a reporter at KCAW in Sitka.