PeaceHealth Layoff — December 2025

PeaceHealth announced a system-wide workforce reduction of 2.5% across its roughly 16,000-employee network, with data provided to the state indicating a "mass layoff" of 241 positions in Washington beginning Dec. 27, 2025, including more than 50 cuts at St. Joseph Medical Center in Bellingham. The majority of impacted roles are non-clinical and administrative, concentrated in Vancouver and shared services teams, though cuts also include specific clinical-adjacent roles and hospital leaders at multiple facilities (Sedro-Woolley, Friday Harbor). Leadership said the decision follows previous reductions (a 1% cut in May and 18 leadership roles in September) and is driven by financial and operational challenges amid a major hospital expansion and rising costs. PeaceHealth framed the move as necessary after exhausting alternatives; the system plans the reductions to take effect on Dec. 27, 2025. The reported Washington-specific figure (241) and local impacts (50+ in Bellingham) come from PeaceHealth’s filings/data to the state.

PeaceHealth disclosed this layoff in an official WARN (Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification) notice recorded by the WA state workforce agency on October 28, 2025. The notice covers 241 employees in Various, WA (Permanent County), with the layoff effective December 27, 2025.

That is roughly 2% of the 12,000 people PeaceHealth employs.

LayoffTalk has tracked 2 layoff events at PeaceHealth since December 2025, including 335 jobs documented in official WARN filings.