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Cardinal Health layoff history

Cardinal Health's recent layoff notices mostly read like a countdown, one Kendall Patient Recovery site at a time. Our tracker holds 7 filings covering 354 jobs since the start of 2025, 6 of them covering 329 jobs in 2026. Five are KPR US LLC closure notices from Augusta, Georgia and Camden, South Carolina; the others are a Tewksbury, Massachusetts filing for 58 and a 25-job Texas notice from GI Alliance, where Cardinal completed its purchase of a 73% stake in January 2025. A shutdown that runs in scheduled waves is a slow, miserable way to lose a job, and the letters say far more about dates than about money.

Augusta is the big one. Cardinal's March 10 letter to Mayor Garnett Johnson said the KPR plant on Marvin Griffin Road would close with all 213 jobs, phasing out from May 15 to full closure on or about September 30, and said workers would receive severance and a COBRA subsidy toward health coverage, with KPR hoping to host a job fair and an on-site outplacement seminar. A Cardinal spokesperson told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that raw material shortages and shifting market dynamics were behind the decision. No length for the COBRA subsidy appears in the reporting we track. If you worked at the plant, ask HR in writing how many months it covers.

Camden got the news in slices. South Carolina's WARN report lists four KPR US LLC notices at 90 East Hampton St., each marked permanent closure and covering 19, 23, 13 and 3 workers, dated March 10 through July 9 with closure dates from May 15 to November 1. That's 58 people, and the report lists no terms. In Tewksbury, Massachusetts, Patch reported from state notices in May that Cardinal intended 58 cuts before June 30; our tracker's row names the filer Managed Services-IDS, doing business as Cardinal Health.

Cardinal's filings put money beside those closures without naming any of them. Its fiscal 2026 10-K reports $106 million of restructuring and employee severance costs, $62 million of it employee-related, after $88 million in fiscal 2025, and says both years' costs came primarily from rationalizing manufacturing and other cost-saving work in its Global Medical Products and Distribution segment. Separately, executives said on the May 2025 earnings call that Cardinal had laid off employees to help offset tariff charges, and Cardinal didn't say how many or where.

Cardinal has shut sites piecemeal before. In late 2020 it said it would close its Indian Land, South Carolina facility in spring 2021, affecting about 300 people, and in March 2023 it told Moberly, Missouri officials it was permanently closing its factory there with 131 layoffs. Terms offered at one site didn't commit Cardinal at the next. Under federal WARN, a business of 100 or more employees generally has to give 60 calendar days' notice of a plant closing or covered mass layoff. Where WARN covers a closing and the employer violates it, each affected worker can recover back pay and benefits for the violation period, capped at 60 days and subject to reduction for any notice given and any voluntary payments. Workers enforce that by suing in federal district court, and the Labor Department has no enforcement role. If your notice gave you fewer than 60 days, keep the letter and its dates. Whether WARN covered your layoff turns on details like how many people lost jobs at your site, and whether it was violated is for a court to decide.

Reporting on previous Cardinal Health layoff rounds

• March 2026, Kendall Patient Recovery plant, Augusta, Georgia · All 213 jobs, with the plant's 211 phasing out from May 15 and full closure set for on or about September 30

  Severance and a COBRA subsidy, plus a hoped-for job fair and outplacement seminar, per Cardinal's letter

• March to July 2026, Kendall Patient Recovery site, Camden, South Carolina · Four closure notices for 19, 23, 13 and 3 workers, dated March 10 to July 9, with closure dates from May 15 to November 1

  The state's report lists dates and counts and no terms

• May 2026, Tewksbury, Massachusetts · 58 cuts before June 30, filed under the name Managed Services-IDS

  Patch reported the count and deadline and no terms

• July 2025, GI Alliance, Southlake, Texas · 25 jobs at GI Alliance Management, months after Cardinal completed its purchase of a 73% stake in GI Alliance

  Our tracker's row shows the count and dates and nothing on terms

• Fiscal third quarter 2025, tariff mitigation · Layoffs of undisclosed size that executives counted among tariff-mitigation steps centered on the medical products and distribution business

  Cardinal didn't tell MedTech Dive how many or where, and the report mentions no terms

• March 2023, Moberly, Missouri factory closure · 131 employees in two phases, ending in late June 2023

  ABC 17 reported no reason or terms, and a spokesperson declined to comment beyond Cardinal's letter

• April 2022, Crystal Lake, Illinois plant · A closure plan and a state notice for more than 200, until Springboard Manufacturing agreed to lease the plant and said it intended to keep every worker

  Springboard's CEO called the notice precautionary and said workers would keep credit for their Cardinal years

• November 2020, Indian Land, South Carolina facility · About 300 of roughly 350 jobs in a closure planned for spring 2021, with kitting work moving to other Cardinal sites

  Severance, benefits and outplacement services, per Cardinal's statement

What to do after being laid off from Cardinal Health

1. File for unemployment in the state where you worked. Benefits run from your filing date, and severance usually doesn't block you. Cardinal Health's biggest hubs: Georgia, South Carolina, Massachusetts, Texas. Somewhere else? Every state is here.
2. 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 Cardinal Health's hub states run: Georgia, South Carolina, Massachusetts, Texas, and every other state is here.
3. 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.
4. Get your real runway number. Severance plus savings divided by reality. The calculator takes five minutes.
5. 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.