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Alameda County leaders are sounding cautiously optimistic about stopping mass layoffs at the East Bay’s public safety-net hospital system ahead of a hearing on the layoff plan on Wednesday.
The latest proposal from Alameda Health System would cut 187 positions, down from earlier plans for close to 300, as executives brace for major reductions in Medicaid revenue because of HR 1 — the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” signed into law by President Donald Trump last year.
The 187 full-time-equivalent positions equate to 211 individuals, AHS said, some of them working part-time. Those 211 employees have already received layoff notices with a March 9 separation date, though that could change. The cuts would affect nurses, therapists, food workers and administrative assistants, among others, and would eliminate some programs completely, including two that provide outpatient behavioral health services…