Kaiser Permanente is eliminating 147 jobs across California, with the terminations set to take effect Nov. 20. The company confirmed the cuts hit business and administrative positions, not frontline patient care roles.
San Diego takes the biggest hit, with 72 administrative workers losing their jobs. Pleasanton will lose 22 positions, Pasadena 20, and Oakland 12. The rest of the cuts are scattered across Sacramento, Folsom, Los Angeles, Corona and Irvine.
Kaiser said the move is part of routine operational review, not a response to any single crisis.
“Kaiser Permanente continually evaluates how we organize our work and deploy resources to help ensure high-quality care remains affordable and accessible for our members and patients.”
The company confirmed the scope of the cuts directly.
“We recently notified 147 employees in a number of business and administrative functions that their positions will be eliminated.”
Kaiser says it will try to place affected workers elsewhere in the organization and will offer severance and job-search assistance to those who can’t be reassigned.
“We are supporting affected employees as they explore other opportunities within Kaiser Permanente and, where appropriate, providing severance, career support, and outplacement services.”
The company insists patients won’t notice any difference.
“These changes will not affect the quality of care or service we provide to our members and patients.”
Kaiser is California’s largest private employer, with more than 183,000 workers statewide. This isn’t the first round of cuts in recent memory — last year the health giant eliminated 200 positions at more than a dozen hospitals and clinics across the state, a move it attributed at the time to rising costs and the need to “rebalance resources.”
With 147 more administrative jobs now gone, California workers are once again left to absorb the cost of a health care giant’s internal restructuring — even as the company insists patients will feel nothing.
