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What Adventist Health layoffs have meant for employees

In 2018 and again in 2020, Adventist Health's layoff notices covered work that kept going under another company's name. In 2018 Adventist Health moved its IT and revenue employees to Cerner, which offered them jobs at the same locations with comparable pay, an Adventist spokeswoman said in the Los Angeles Business Journal's report, adding that no one had been asked to relocate. That switch was expected to save the company $300 million over three years. In 2020 Adventist said its security, environmental services and facilities work would go to Allied Universal, Crothall Healthcare and JLL, in a statement KERO carried, and its Tillamook WARN letter said it anticipated JLL offers for the workers it laid off in that Oregon town. For the Cerner group, and for the Tillamook workers expecting JLL offers, the notice and the job offer described one event, a new employer for the same work. That's how the 2018 notices could call the layoffs permanent while the people who took Cerner's offer kept working at the same sites.

When Adventist Health closed a hospital, the jobs ended with it. When Adventist Health moved to close Walla Walla General Hospital in 2017, its closing announcement said other Adventist hospitals had positions open for people ready to relocate. Adventist had put more than $68 million into the hospital before judging its future unsustainable, the announcement said, and it expected many of the staff to pursue other work locally. Feather River Hospital in Paradise closed after the 2018 Camp Fire, and California's WARN report logged the closure as temporary. Adventist's executives told a Paradise meeting in July 2023 that Feather River would stay closed for good, in North State Public Radio's account, so a notice marked temporary turned out to be the last word on those jobs.

For two of its rounds, Adventist Health pointed to money. When it consolidated its care networks and cut dozens of administrative jobs, it said the moves would save more than $100 million in administrative costs for its hospitals and clinics, as Columbia Community Connection relayed from Fierce Healthcare, and the same report put its operating loss for 2022's first nine months at $254 million, with $28 million of that period's expenses tied to organizational restructuring. In 2026 it told The Union Democrat that the centralization was part of how health systems were adapting to cost increases, reimbursement pressure and federal policy.

The 2026 cuts worked like the earlier transfers, except that the new jobs were at Adventist Health itself. Work that each hospital had organized on its own moved into a system-wide structure, as Adventist described it to the paper, and the company built positions in that structure for people whose roles it eliminated. More than 80 of them already held the new jobs when the June letter went out, The Sacramento Bee reported, so for many people on that letter the notice and the new role arrived together. If your role was among the centralized ones and you weren't placed, the July 3 date in that letter is when the old job ended.

Who offered the next job has varied by round. Cerner made that offer to its 2018 group, JLL was expected to make it to the Tillamook crew in 2020, and in 2026 Adventist Health made it to most of the people whose roles it centralized. In Walla Walla's closing, Adventist pointed to openings at its other hospitals for anyone able to move.

Our WARN tracker counts 628 jobs across Adventist Health's filings since January 2025, in three states. Where a vendor's offer arrived alongside your notice, you can keep the notice, the offer and your last Adventist pay stub together as a record of what changed and when. The same goes for a notice typed temporary, since Feather River's notice called its closure temporary and Adventist later said the hospital wouldn't reopen.