Here are 10 hospitals and health systems that have conducted or announced layoffs since Oct. 1, 2025, as reported by Becker’s:
1. Rochester (N.Y.) Regional Health shared plans to eliminate some non-patient-facing roles. The health system did not specify the number of affected positions.
2. Vancouver, Wash.-based PeaceHealth is reducing its workforce by 2.5% through a combination of select caregiver role eliminations, the closure of some open positions and other organizational adjustments. A majority of affected positions are nonclinical and administrative shared services roles.
3. Portland-based Legacy Health shared plans for multiple service changes and clinic closures. These include closing Legacy Devers Eye Institute at Emanuel Medical Center in Portland on Jan. 9; ending the outpatient neuro-rehabilitation program at Emanuel next year; and closing Legacy Salmon Creek Pain Clinic in Vancouver, Wash., on March 20. Legacy did not have further comment for Becker’s on the employees affected by these and other service or clinic changes.
4. Providence shared plans to permanently close four occupational medicine and workplace health clinics in Portland, Ore., affecting 43 employees. The Renton, Wash.-based health system is offering severance and encouraging affected workers to apply for other open roles within the organization.
5. Jefferson Health shared plans to lay off around 1% of its 65,000-person workforce, or approximately 650 employees. The Philadelphia-based health system did not detail which roles would be affected.
6. Stanford Medicine’s Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital in Palo Alto, Calif., is laying off 87 workers — about 1% of the 361-bed hospital’s workforce. The layoffs are set to take effect Dec. 12, according to an Oct. 10 WARN notice filed with the state.
7. Kaiser Permanente shared plans to lay off 216 workers in California, primarily positions in IT and food services. The layoffs will occur across more than a dozen locations in San Mateo, San Diego, Riverside, Los Angeles, Contra Costa and Alameda counties, according to a WARN Act notice Kaiser filed with the state’s Employment Development Department.
8. Ninety employees will be laid off in the pending closure of Select Specialty Hospital–South Dakota, part of Mechanicsburg, Pa.-based Select Specialty Hospital. The hospital, which is located inside Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Sanford USD Medical Center and Hospital, will close “on or around Nov. 7,” or within 14 days of the scheduled layoff date, according to a WARN notice.
Some affected positions include chief nursing officer, registered nurse, respiratory therapist, physical therapist, human resources manager and pharmacist.
9. Powell (Wyo.) Valley Healthcare shared plans to end oncology services and close its internal medicine clinic in Cody. The oncology closure will result in seven layoffs, though infusion services will continue at the hospital.
10. Brewer, Maine-based Northern Light Health shared plans to close its Waterville (Maine) walk-in clinic by year’s end, affecting about 30 workers. The health system said it is working with them to determine next steps.
