Adventist Health lays off dozens in Kings, Kern counties
Adventist Health has laid off dozens of employees in the Central Valley across several facilities in Kern and Kings counties. Layoffs were effective Friday.
In Kern County, 15 positions were affected across four facilities including Adventist Health Bakersfield. In Kings County, 12 positions at Adventist Health Hanford were affected, according to the notification filed with California’s Employment Development Department.
The layoffs in Hanford, Bakersfield, Delano and Tehachapi, were part of statewide layoffs affecting more than 100 employees in 13 counties. Other counties include Lake, Los Angeles, Mendocino, Napa, Placer, San Joaquin, San Luis Obispo, Solano, Tuolumne, Ventura, and Yuba.
Adventist Health did not respond for comment when reached out about the layoffs across the five Valley facilities.
The faith-based nonprofit, with facilities in cities and rural areas in the West Coast and Hawaii, is implementing a “restructuring initiative” that involves centralizing and standardizing roles within the Quality, Risk, Infection Prevention, and Accreditation departments, according to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) letter dated June 25 from Adventist Health‘s network director of human resources Todd Reese to the EDD.
The restructuring resulted in the elimination of certain job functions and positions across multiple facilities. While some existing roles were eliminated, new positions were created within the centralized structure, according to the letter.
Reese wrote that affected employees were offered “opportunities to transition into these roles,” with more than 80 employees across the state accepting positions in the new structure.
Affected employees were not represented by a union or collective bargaining representative, according to the letter.
