{"id":392684,"date":"2026-07-09T23:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T23:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/392684\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T23:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T23:33:08","slug":"dignity-health-to-lay-off-57-workers-at-bakersfield-memorial-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/392684\/","title":{"rendered":"Dignity Health to lay off 57 workers at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Dignity Health is permanently laying off 57 employees at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital, with the cuts taking effect on August 3, 2026, according to a WARN letter.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement to Eyewitness News, Dignity Health said the decision was driven by \u201ceconomic pressures, soaring costs, and complex government and payer dynamics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Officials said the layoffs are part of a broader effort aimed at helping ensure the hospital\u2019s long-term financial stability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Dignity Health is permanently laying off 57 employees at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital, with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-392684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}