HealthCare Partners Medical Group, P.C. Layoff — August 2026

An ALJ found that HealthCare Partners Medical Group, P.C. (part of the Optum/UnitedHealth Group family) unlawfully conducted a mass layoff of hospitalist physicians without bargaining after a union was certified. The Union of American Physicians and Dentists was certified in August 2023 to represent about 45 hospitalist physicians, and the employers terminated 10 unit physicians effective January 25, 2024, immediately relieving them of duties on October 26 as part of a shift from fee-for-service to managed care. The ALJ held the layoff was a mandatory subject of bargaining and that effects bargaining was foreclosed by the employers' actions; the employers also unlawfully withdrew recognition in March 2025. Remedies ordered included reinstatement, full backpay, make-whole relief, and restoration of recognition.

HealthCare Partners Medical Group, P.C. disclosed this layoff in an official WARN (Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification) notice recorded by the CA state workforce agency on June 1, 2026. The notice covers 8 employees in East Huntington Drive Arcadia, CA (Los Angeles County), with the layoff effective August 28, 2026.

The state lists each affected employee separately by work location, so this filing spans 4 CA communities: Del Amo Boulevard Torrance, East Huntington Drive Arcadia, Indian Hills Road Los Angeles, Los Angeles.

That is roughly 0.2% of the 5,000 people HealthCare Partners Medical Group, P.C. employs.