Loyola Medicine Invests in Raising Minimum Wage for Workforce

Loyola Medicine Invests in Raising Minimum Wage

for Workforce 

Maywood, IL — Loyola Medicine president and CEO Shawn P. Vincent has announced that the three-hospital system will voluntarily increase its current minimum wage. Loyola Medicine includes Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, Gottlieb Memorial Hospital in Melrose Park and MacNeal Hospital in Berwyn, as well as a large network of ambulatory centers. 

Valued at an initial annual investment of nearly $3 million, the increase will go into effect on January 5, 2020, boosting the minimum wage at Loyola Medicine to $15 per hour. At present, the current Illinois state minimum wage is $8.25 per hour and will increase to $9.25 on January 1, 2020. 

“Our people are our greatest assets,” said Vincent. “Offering a higher minimum wage is simply the right thing to do to compensate our colleagues for their hard work and dedication to our mission.”  Approximately one-third of Loyola’s workforce will be affected by the minimum wage increase or by pay increases due to salary compression adjustments. 

Loyola Medicine’s increase in minimum wage is voluntary and not federally mandated.

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About Loyola Medicine

Loyola Medicine, a member of Trinity Health, is a quaternary care system based in Chicago’s western suburbs that includes Loyola University Medical Center (LUMC), Gottlieb Memorial Hospital, MacNeal Hospital and convenient locations offering primary and specialty care services from more than 1,800 physicians throughout Cook, Will and DuPage counties. LUMC is a 547-licensed-bed hospital in Maywood that includes the William G. & Mary A. Ryan Center for Heart & Vascular Medicine, the Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center, a Level 1 trauma center, Illinois’s largest burn center, a certified comprehensive stroke center and a children’s hospital. Having delivered compassionate care for more than 50 years, Loyola also trains the next generation of caregivers through its academic affiliation with Loyola University Chicago’s Stritch School of Medicine and Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing. Gottlieb is a 247-licensed-bed community hospital in Melrose Park with 180 physician offices, an adult day care program, the Gottlieb Center for Fitness, the Loyola Center for Metabolic Surgery and Bariatric Care and the Loyola Cancer Care & Research facility at the Marjorie G. Weinberg Cancer Center. MacNeal Hospital is a 374-licensed-bed teaching hospital in Berwyn with advanced inpatient and outpatient medical, surgical and psychiatric services, including acute rehabilitation, an inpatient skilled nursing facility and a 68-bed behavioral health program and community clinics. MacNeal has provided quality, patient-centered care to the near west suburbs since 1919. For more information, visit loyolamedicine.org.

About Trinity Health

Trinity Health is one of the largest multi-institutional Catholic health care delivery systems in the nation, serving diverse communities that include more than 30 million people across 22 states. Trinity Health includes 92 hospitals, as well as 106 continuing care locations that include PACE programs, senior living facilities, and home care and hospice services. Its continuing care programs provide nearly 2 million visits annually. Based in Livonia, Mich., and with annual operating revenues of $19.3 billion and assets of $27 billion, the organization returns $1.2 billion to its communities annually in the form of charity care and other community benefit programs. Trinity Health employs about 129,000 colleagues, including about 7,500 employed physicians and clinicians.