Laid off from Carbon Health.

What Carbon Health layoffs have meant for employees

Most addresses on California's October 2023 list show a handful of jobs each, so that round is easy to miss if you're looking for one big number. Nine of the 16 addresses on the January 2024 notice match that list character for character, including San Rafael, which went from three jobs to 10, and a Long Beach site on South Street, which went from three to six. If your clinic was one of those nine, the two notices carried effective dates about five months apart. Every row on both notices is typed a layoff, none a closure, which points to staff cuts at sites that weren't listed as closing. Carbon Health told the San Francisco Chronicle its 2024 cuts were made "in specific locations," and the paper put 10 of those jobs in San Rafael, seven in San Francisco and the rest in Southern California. A clinic's own lines are there to look up, because California's WARN report runs address by address. The October 2023 round shows up as 50 California employees in the Chronicle's 2024 story, well below the count in the state's report.

Once the case began, severance became a string of decisions. Carbon Health sought court authority to keep paying it "in their discretion," the February 2026 wages motion shows, and severance was about $80,000 of the $3,863,000 in pre-filing pay and benefits it covered. Another proposal covered 43 people, whose incentive and retention pay would replace any expectation of severance, a retention plan motion says. A separate February call took up providers' severance at clinics planned for closure, Alvarez & Marsal's time records show. The motion speaks of "certain" employees and "eligible" ones, so it describes a practice that didn't cover everyone. If severance comes up, salary, title and length of service are the factors it gave for past payments, which makes them history and not an entitlement. There's more on negotiating severance.

April 2, 2026 was the general bar date for claims, Kroll's case page says, and it also lists a proof of claim form and questions and answers for employees. Carbon Health said in the wages motion it wouldn't pay any individual more than $17,150 for unpaid pre-filing wages, commissions, incentives and benefit contributions, with three proposed exceptions. One was a recently terminated employee owed $22,966 in paid time off, which the company said non-bankruptcy law required it to pay. It put unpaid time off at about $111,000 across the company. What the plan projected for a claim depended on its class. Projections ran to 100% for priority non-tax claims and 8% to 10% for commercial unsecured claims in the confirmed Chapter 11 plan, with $4.55 million of a $12 million trust going to the commercial group and the trustee handling objections to those claims. Its class table doesn't place any worker's claim in either one.

The company came out of the case with new majority owners. The plan provided for about $33 million in new capital and a $100 million debt-for-equity exchange, Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones reported in May 2026, adding that Future Solution Investments, which leads the lender group, had expressed its intention to turn Carbon Health into "an AI-driven healthcare system." If you work there now, the severance practice in the motion is a description of the past, and the plan assumed employment arrangements "as may be amended." California's four notices cover one state, while the company had clinics in eight states at the filing and staff in 21. You can look up California unemployment benefits or benefits in other states.

A sourced history of Carbon Health layoffs

• February 2026, Chapter 11 filing and planned clinic closures

  Carbon Health filed Chapter 11 on February 2, Kroll's case page says, and its CEO said it would be "business as usual" during the restructuring, per Fierce Healthcare. Alvarez & Marsal's time records show a February 13 call on severance for providers at clinics "planned on being closed."

• March 2024, fourth layoff round in medical jobs

  Physicians, medical assistants and nurses were among 56 medical jobs in what the San Francisco Chronicle called the fourth round since 2022. The company said it was aligning "clinical staffing to post COVID-19 demand levels" in specific locations.

• October 2023, 199 jobs listed at 52 California addresses

  California's WARN report labels every row a permanent layoff, across 14 counties, on notices dated August 10 and effective October 9. The largest line is 18 jobs in Campbell, and 43 addresses list five or fewer.

• January 2023, more than 200 cut as programs unwind

  CEO Eren Bali said the company was unwinding public health, remote patient monitoring, hardware and chronic care programs, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. The state notice ran from directors and the chief technology officer to janitors, recruiters and salespeople.

• June 2022, 250 cut as COVID lines wind down

  Carbon Health was winding down COVID business lines and shifting toward profitability, TechCrunch reported, and it offered separation packages with extended healthcare coverage, removed equity cliffs for options and outplacement support. California's notice listed 131 jobs.

What to do if you're laid off from Carbon Health

• File for unemployment in the state where you worked. Benefits run from your filing date, and severance usually doesn't block you. Carbon Health's biggest hubs: California. Somewhere else? Every state is here.
• Apply for financial and hardship assistance. Unemployment supplements income, but food benefits, health coverage and utility help are often available as well. Here's some of what Carbon Health's hub states run: California, and every other state is here.
• Mind the health insurance window. Losing coverage opens a 60-day special enrollment period, and an ACA plan usually beats unsubsidized COBRA. Compare your options before the employer coverage lapses, and read how the COBRA clocks run if you are weighing it seriously.
• Get your real runway number. Severance plus savings divided by reality. The calculator takes five minutes.
• Know which clocks are already running. Severance review windows, COBRA election, visa grace periods, and 401(k) rollovers all run on federal deadlines that started at termination. All five deadlines are here.