Here are 10 layoffs and closures by hospitals or health systems that physicians need to know in 2024:
1. Burlington-based The University of Vermont Health Network will make significant cuts to clinical services and eliminate up to 200 jobs to address a mandated $122 million revenue reduction amid rising patient demand. Positions will be affected across UVM Health, which will also close its renal transplant program and its Berlin, Vt.-based Central Vermont Medical Center psychiatric unit.
2. Pontiac (Mich.) General Hospital will lay off 248 employees after the hospital learned that it was unexpectedly excluded from receiving Medicare payments.
3. Bradenton, Fla.-based nonprofit MCR health laid off a total of 47 employees after seeking Chapter 11 protection. The layoffs affected a pain-management physician, an orthopedics physician, two X-ray technicians, 17 patient engagement specialists, a senior staff accountant, 17 authorization and referral specialists and a director of musculoskeletal operations.
4. Modesto, Calif.-based Stanislaus Surgical Hospital suspended operations indefinitely and laid off 160 employees after CMS terminated the 23-bed hospital's provider agreement for noncompliance with various conditions of participation within Medicare and Medi-Cal programs.
5. Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente closed its last skilled nursing facility in the country in San Leandro, Calif., resulting in the loss of 259 jobs.
Dallas-based Steward Health Care had layoffs at multiple locations due to closures after the system filed for bankruptcy in May.
6. The closures of Warren, Ohio-based Trumbull Regional Medical Center and Hillside Rehabilitation Hospital laid off 944 employees.
7. The closures of Dorchester, Mass.-based Carney Hospital and Ayer, Mass.-based Nashoba Valley Medical Center, which resulted in the layoffs of 1,243 employees.
8. Houston-based Texas Children's Hospital laid off 5% of its workforce, or roughly 1,000 employees. The layoffs include frontline healthcare workers and those in leadership positions.
9. Portland-based Oregon Health & Science University laid off at least 500 employees, citing financial issues.
10. Pittsburgh-based UPMC laid off approximately 1,000 employees, representing more than 1% of the health system's 100,000 employees.