Dignity Health eliminates 137 positions across two California hospitals, including 57 in Kern County
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What we know
Location: Kern County, California (and another California hospital).
Department affected: licensed vocational nurses, support staff, emergency department and labor & delivery (frontline healthcare workers).
Based on news reporting.
Summary
Dignity Health is eliminating 137 positions across two California hospitals, including 57 jobs in Kern County, with the cuts affecting licensed vocational nurses, support staff and other frontline healthcare workers. The workforce reductions — effective Aug. 3 — will also lead to the closure of the Tehachapi Family Medicine Clinic and are part of cost-cutting and streamlining measures tied to financial pressures at parent CommonSpirit Health. Nurses protested outside Mercy Hospital Downtown, warning that increased workloads from the cuts could slow care delivery and risk patient safety, particularly in emergency and labor & delivery departments. Dignity Health attributes the reductions to broader efforts to address ongoing losses at CommonSpirit Health.
Dignity Health cut 137 jobs affecting its licensed vocational nurses, support staff, emergency department and labor & delivery (frontline healthcare workers) team as of August 3, 2023.
That is roughly 0.1% of the 92,000 people Dignity Health employs.
LayoffTalk has tracked 9 layoff events at Dignity Health since August 2023, including 196 jobs documented in official WARN filings, with 7 additional events known from news reporting.
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