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What Hudson Regional Health layoffs have meant for employees

HPAE, the union for Heights' nurses, has cited the commitments Hudson Regional made when it took these hospitals on. The union's president said that less than six months before the Heights layoffs Hudson Regional had told the bankruptcy court it had the money to run the CarePoint system, Christ Hospital included, and that it kept making assurances its actions contradicted, Hudson County View reported. The state's March 2025 approval of its Bayonne purchase, granted while all three CarePoint hospitals were still in bankruptcy in Delaware, records that it didn't expect to change its contracts with professional staff. After the Bayonne letters in April 2026, the union said Hudson Regional had gone back on its word to workers, to the union and to the communities around its hospitals several times in a year, Patch reported.

At Heights, HPAE's November 14 update called the closing rushed and potentially unlawful, and the union's president said Hudson Regional had acted with no regard for Department of Health regulations or the WARN act, Patch reported. The update told members with no written confirmation that their jobs had ended to keep reporting until a supervisor said otherwise in writing, told anyone accepting a position at another facility to get a formal written offer letter, and told those with an official layoff notice to file for unemployment. Hudson Regional's notices to the state for Heights listed 271 jobs in all, while CBS New York put the hospital's staff at 699 when the closing was announced. If your job at Heights ended, our New Jersey unemployment page covers how much the state pays, who qualifies and how to file.

If you were in HPAE's Heights nursing unit, the Heights nurses' contract made in June 2025 set terms beyond severance pay. A nurse laid off without cause was to be paid all remaining banked PTO over nine months in equal monthly installments. A laid-off nurse could also stay on the hospital's medical insurance for three months after the layoff took effect, as long as they kept paying their share of the premiums and hadn't found coverage elsewhere. HPAE's January 2026 update said management hadn't answered in writing its grievances over the timing of layoffs, the closing of units and the 401(k). If HPAE files a grievance challenging your layoff, those PTO installments don't begin under the contract until the grievance is concluded.

Hudson Regional doesn't hold the three former CarePoint hospitals the same way. In a February 2026 stipulation filed in CarePoint's bankruptcy case, it appears as owner of Bayonne Medical Center and as guarantor and manager of the other debtor hospitals, which include the former Christ and Hoboken hospitals, while the reorganized CarePoint companies remain the debtors. The banked PTO in the Heights nurses' contract traces to that case too, set aside under an April 17, 2025 order. The notices posted for all three hospitals in September 2024, before Hudson Regional ran them, were CarePoint's. If you were in the CarePoint hospitals' 401(k) plan, our page on your 401(k) after a layoff lays out the rollover choices. No notice from Hudson Regional for Hoboken University Hospital or its Secaucus hospital appears in our WARN tracker.

At Bayonne, HPAE said the April letters to every staff member sowed uncertainty and confusion and that it was taking the threat very seriously, Patch reported. If you're at Bayonne and hold one of those letters, you can keep it with anything else the company puts in writing about your job.