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Peacehealth will reduce its workforce by 1% and gelera hiring non-clinical until the end of the year, a spokesman announced on Tuesday.
“After months of discernment, a financial analysis and an in-depth examination of the dynamic health care market, we carry out a 1% reduction in our workforce, in particular by eliminating certain caregivers and by closing certain open positions,” a spokesperson for Peacehealth said in a statement.
The health system, which operates in Washington, Oregon and Alaska, employs 16,000 workers, according to its website. Peacehealth offered few details on the roles affected or when the cuts would come into effect. The hiring gel does not apply to open clinical roles, said a spokesperson.
The health system reduced roles in 2023, according to a Bellingham Herald report. At the time, around 250 roles were affected.
Peacehealth joins an increasing number of health systems that have chosen to reduce jobs in the midst of financial and regulatory uncertainty.
NewYork-Prresbyterian Health System, University of New Mexico Hospital, Penn Medicine, Yale New Haven Health, Mass General Brigham, Jefferson Health and Lehigh Valley Health Network have all left workers or consolidate their leadership teams in recent months, invoking concerns about financiers.
