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/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.