Seattle Children's Hospital Layoff — November 2025
SOURCEOFFICIAL FILINGWashington State Employment Security Department· filed September 17, 2025View the filing ↗
What we know
Location: Seattle, Bellevue, Everett, Federal Way, Kennewick, WA (Permanent County).
A WARN notice for this layoff is recorded on September 17, 2025.
Disclosed through an official WARN filing with the WA state workforce agency.
Summary
Seattle Children’s Hospital announced planned workforce reductions affecting its operations in Kennewick, Seattle, Bellevue, Everett, Federal Way and remote staff. The state Employment Security Department filed a WARN notice indicating Seattle Children’s will lay off 154 staff with separations beginning Nov. 15, and the hospital will also close 350 open positions; the cuts represent about 1.5% of its workforce. The hospital said financial pressures from anticipated state and federal funding cuts are driving the decision, but affirmed the Kennewick clinic will remain open and did not disclose how many Kennewick-specific staff would be impacted. The notice and hospital statement frame the reductions as planned actions to secure the institution’s financial future and protect core care and research services.
Seattle Children's Hospital disclosed this layoff in an official WARN (Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification) notice recorded by the WA state workforce agency on September 17, 2025. The notice covers 154 employees in Seattle, Bellevue, Everett, Federal Way, Kennewick, WA (Permanent County), with the layoff effective November 15, 2025.
That is roughly 1.3% of the 12,000 people Seattle Children's Hospital employs.
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