Laid off from Select Medical.

What Select Medical layoffs have meant for employees

A hospital within a hospital, as Select's 2025 annual report describes the arrangement, is separately licensed but typically rents its space from a general acute care hospital and sits inside it or on its campus. The host's plans came first in Sioux Falls and Longview, as SiouxFalls.Business and the Longview News-Journal described, and in Warren, Ohio, where The Vindicator reported that Select shut its unit in 2024 because the host hospital said it was closing, a closing that never came. That year Mercy Health also decided not to renew Select's lease at St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital, the paper reported, with clinical staff there to transfer to Select's Boardman hospital. If your unit sits in a host hospital, the host's plans for its space and its own future bear on your job too.

In Longview, Sioux Falls and Warren, Select pointed staff to jobs elsewhere in its own network, those same reports show, and how far that reached turned on what Select ran nearby. Warren had other Select hospitals in the same market, while in Sioux Falls Select was leaving the market altogether, so pursuing a hospital role elsewhere in its network could have required a move. That's where the host can matter a second time. Select said it was working with Sanford to guide affected Sioux Falls staff toward roles in Sanford's own system, and if your unit sits inside a larger hospital, that hospital is another employer to set beside a transfer. If Select offers you one, the distance, the shifts and whether your pay carries over are what separate a real option from a long commute.

The merger agreement behind Select's take-private set terms for the year after the closing. Employees working in the U.S. who stayed on were to get, for as long as a year after the closing, base pay and target cash incentive opportunities no less favorable than just before it. They were also to get credit for their Select service for vesting and eligibility under the buyer's benefit plans, except for eligibility under defined benefit pension plans or where it would duplicate benefits. The same section says nothing in the agreement guarantees anyone a job for any period or requires Select to keep a benefit plan, and it calls those terms "solely for the benefit of the parties" and says no employee counts as a third-party beneficiary. If you were on Select's staff at the closing and it ends your job inside that year, the plans in force on the closing date are the ones the agreement's severance promise points to.

Select's annual report shows the company adding and shedding facilities in the same years, buying and opening hospitals and clinics while it closed or sold some critical illness recovery hospitals and dozens of outpatient clinics. That churn across the network doesn't by itself show what kind of nearby role a worker at a closing unit could pursue. If your unit is closing, what counts more than the company's totals is whether a Select hospital or clinic, or a job with the host, sits within reach of your home and your shifts.

For the states behind Select's 2025 and 2026 notices, and for Texas, home to 10 of its filings in our WARN tracker, Texas unemployment benefits, Arizona unemployment benefits, Mississippi unemployment benefits and South Dakota unemployment benefits carry the rules for a claim in each. Select had operations in 38 states and the District of Columbia as of March 31, 2026, according to Select's June 30 release, and unemployment benefits by state covers the rest.

A sourced history of Select Medical layoffs

• July 2026, Select Specialty Hospital-Tucson East set to close

  A WARN notice filed July 9, which Becker's Hospital Review described, set Tucson East to close on or about Aug. 7, with all 99 employees to be permanently laid off, among them 24 registered nurses and 18 respiratory therapists.

• February 2026, Regency Hospital in Meridian set to close

  The 40-bed hospital inside Baptist Anderson Regional Medical Center South would close around March 13, an operational business decision, Select told the Meridian Star. Mississippi's WARN list logs its Feb. 11 notice as a closure affecting 102, citing significant financial losses.

• October 2025, Select Specialty Hospital-Sioux Falls set to close

  Select's statement, as SiouxFalls.Business reported it, said the company would leave the Sioux Falls market by year's end and close its 24-bed hospital in leased space on Sanford USD Medical Center's campus. Its 90 employees could apply for jobs in Select's network.

• September 2024, Select Specialty Hospital-Trumbull closed in Warren, Ohio

  Select shut its 11-bed unit inside Trumbull Regional Medical Center on Sept. 19 and told The Vindicator it was able to reposition all the employees there.

• May 2024, Select Specialty Hospital in Longview set to close

  The hospital inside Christus Good Shepherd Medical Center would close around June 30, the Longview News-Journal reported, and its notice to Texas put the job losses at 94. Select said it would look for openings for those affected across its network.

• August 2016, Select Medical's Scottsdale facility set to close

  Select told Arizona it would close its facility in space leased at the Honor Health Medical Campus in October, cutting 90 jobs, KJZZ reported, and a spokeswoman said many employees would be offered transfers to other Select hospitals in Arizona.

What to do if you're laid off from Select Medical

• File for unemployment in the state where you worked. Benefits run from your filing date, and severance usually doesn't block you. Select Medical's biggest hubs: Texas, Arizona, Mississippi, South Dakota. 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 Select Medical's hub states run: Texas, Arizona, Mississippi, South Dakota, 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.