Dignity Health is laying off 57 employees at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital and closing its family medicine clinic in Tehachapi next month as parent company CommonSpirit Health works through significant financial challenges.
The layoffs at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital take effect Aug. 3. Dignity Health told 23ABC the organization is “realigning resources and enhancing operational efficiencies” to continue serving patients into the future.
CommonSpirit Health is in the middle of a multiyear turnaround plan aimed at improving operations after reporting more than $1 billion in operating losses during the first nine months of its fiscal year, according to Becker’s Hospital Review…