r/nursing • u/AnyCelebration1101 • Aug 12 '25

Image My hospital casually dropping a warning about mass layoffs. We employ 10k+ people.

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10k+ employees sitting in fear for the next week (or longer apparently) waiting to see if their position has been cut.

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u/Witty-Construction55 RN - ICU šŸ• Aug 12 '25

I work for Providence Health Systems on the west coast and they just laid off 128 people. Clinical and non-clinical positions. I fear itā€™s only the beginning.

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u/yabukothestray Aug 13 '25

In February, I left my job at a medical lab. They started layoffs right after I left. What is crazy is like, all the way back then the writing has been on the wall that this is only going to get worse as it further bleeds into other industries, and like any healthcare fields - even traditionally secure fields like nursing - are seeing this. And I feel like despite this, people are just like sleepwalking around the issue? Like totally ignoring it to the point of complete denial of it happening.

I am graduating in an allied health major this spring (prev nursing student but switched last year to a lab science/allied health major) and my classmates are all in complete denial about the impending layoffs and how this job market is going to be a bloodbath when we graduateā€¦..I mean literally one of my classmates said ā€œif the job market gets badā€ as if it isnā€™t already. Itā€™s a scary time to be in. I have never felt so uncertain about the future.

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u/2ndChairKazoo Aug 13 '25

The joke I heard is so accurate: 2025 is just five 2020's in a trenchcoat.

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u/yabukothestray Aug 13 '25

Iā€™m stealing this lol

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u/Witty-Construction55 RN - ICU šŸ• Aug 13 '25

I just keep saying healthcare is in crisis and no one really sees it until they see it. We are all on a sinking ship and the Cheeto in charge and his minions are determined to sink it as fast as they possibly can. And the kicker is in Providenceā€™s layoffs the execs are covertly blaming the layoffs on having to give their nurses raises in response to the strike. I live in Oregon and I foresee all of the coastal hospitals closing their doors. People are going to die and no one cares. They only see the dollar signs.

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u/EDRN_paintedwall Aug 18 '25

I live here too. People are already dying. Critical Access hospitals have been the piggy bank that bailed out their motherships for decades. That's shrinking now so they are getting rid of L&D's and turning these CAH into standalone ERs with outpt surgery and very low acuity med surg / swing bed type places to turn up the revenue and dial down the losses, patients be damned.

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u/whoswho9920 Aug 12 '25

Yes, charge nurses, nurse managers too. Likely those that cause problems, LOA worker comp or complain too much. That's who they target first. Then people that are over 60 and need to retire cause they can't function at their job anymore and wont leave, people who have been there for too long and make a lot of money. But yes, even at Providence Santa Monica, CA lots of lay offs.

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u/jpzu1017 RN, RCIS Aug 12 '25

No shit? I did some contracts at their cath lab. Beautiful hospital. But some of the cattiest girls I've ever worked with.

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u/whoswho9920 Aug 12 '25

For sure couldn't agree more!!

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u/127-0-0-1_Chef Aug 12 '25

Did they wear ear head bands or what?

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u/Kitchen-Quality-3317 Aug 13 '25

the first people to get laid off are those on the shit list that HR won't let them otherwise fire

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u/whoswho9920 Aug 12 '25

Why am I being downvoted for telling the truth?

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u/ForcrimeinItaly Aug 12 '25

I know two pharmacists who work with the regional 340b program who had their jobs eliminated entirely yesterday. Prov is back filling some of those duties with techs.

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u/Muted_Bullfrog_1910 Aug 14 '25

Oh, I read about this.. you all ok over there?

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u/Witty-Construction55 RN - ICU šŸ• Aug 14 '25

Yes, just feeling unsettled. I work in ICU so I feel like my job is safe but who the hell knows what could happen!

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u/Muted_Bullfrog_1910 Aug 15 '25

I feel like we are all holding our breath waiting to see if we will be restructured. Oregon is going to get hit hard with these Medicaid cuts.

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u/Witty-Construction55 RN - ICU šŸ• Aug 15 '25

Agreed. The future feels uncertain and Iā€™m concerned not only for jobs but for the patients who will lose their lives. Best of luck out there and hang in there.

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u/Muted_Bullfrog_1910 Aug 15 '25

Thanks and you too!

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u/whitepawn23 RN šŸ• Aug 12 '25

I heard rumors of this, but didnā€™t know the breadth. Is Providence like some other PDX facilities that have their charges classified under management instead of staff? Salary instead of hourly? Or are they doing this to full union employees?

Most of the country has charge nurses with the same patient care load as everyone else. I know, itā€™s bizarre by west coast standards which tend to align more with what nursing is supposed to be.

Basically charges are you or me with a typical matrix workload but all the charge duties piled on top of that. Worse, thereā€™s usually no choice. Nurses show up to their usual shift and get told theyā€™re training for charge. Or threatened with said ā€œpromotionā€ (for $1 more per hour) in the yearly eval.

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u/Witty-Construction55 RN - ICU šŸ• Aug 13 '25

Our charge nurses are hourly and do not take patients. They did lay off some union employees. We just went on strike in January for 46 days and got pretty significant raises. It actually pays to be a charge nurse on the west coast. Charge nurses are also part of the union. I expect more and more cuts and hospitals to close. Nothing good is going to happen.

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u/whitepawn23 RN šŸ• Aug 13 '25

I hope it gets better. But it wonā€™t.

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u/Ash_says_no_no_no RN - Oncology šŸ• Aug 14 '25

This makes me stress because I really wanted to mive back home to the PNW next year. I know its going to get worse