GE Healthcare to move as many as 250 jobs from Wisconsin

GE Healthcare plans to move as many as 250 jobs from Wisconsin to regional sales offices in other parts of the country or to its headquarters in Chicago over the next nine months.

Most of the people who will be affected are in sales and marketing and will be transferred to other regional sales offices. Wauwatosa will remain one of the company's five U.S. regional sales offices. The balance of those affected are in support positions and will be moved to Chicago.

In a statement, the company said some of the affected employees may be able to transfer to other positions in Wisconsin.

GE Healthcare's business units for magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI; computerized tomography, or CT; ultrasound; and other products will remain in Wauwatosa and Waukesha.

Its operations in Wisconsin also include bedside monitors and incubators for neonatal intensive care units.

GE Healthcare employs slightly fewer than 6,000 people in Wauwatosa, Waukesha, Milwaukee and Madison.

The company, part of GE Co., said it employs more people in Wisconsin than in any other state.

GE Healthcare's headquarters once was based in Waukesha. Its headquarters was moved to London after GE bought Amersham plc, which makes radiopharmaceutical products used in diagnostic and therapeutic nuclear medicine procedures, in 2003. Its headquarters later was moved to Chicago.