Dignity Health Layoff — August 2026

California Hospital Medical Center (CHMC) in Los Angeles announced a mass reduction on June 1, 2026, cutting 82 employees across the facility, including all nurses in the pediatric unit, unit secretaries, and other support health care staff. The hospital, part of CommonSpirit Health, is also scheduled to close its pediatric unit on August 31, 2026, prompting registered nurses to hold an informational picket on June 29 to protest the layoffs and closure and to raise patient-safety concerns. Nurses cited unsafe staffing, lack of ancillary staff and break relief, increased workplace violence, and cost-driven shifts in care models (such as virtual monitoring replacing aides) as reasons for the staffing reductions. The union representing CHMC nurses reported the specifics and contextualized the cuts within broader pediatric unit closures by major Catholic hospital systems.

Dignity Health disclosed this layoff in an official WARN (Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification) notice recorded by the CA state workforce agency on June 29, 2026. The notice covers 139 employees in Los Angeles, CA (Los Angeles County), with the layoff effective August 3, 2026.

The state lists each affected employee separately by work location, so this filing spans 2 CA communities: Los Angeles, Street Bakersfield.

That is roughly 0.2% 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.