Novant Health to eliminate 160 jobs in systemwide layoffs, health care company says
Citing a “challenging healthcare environment,” Novant Health is planning to cut 160 jobs across its network, hospital officials confirmed Thursday.
The Winston-Salem based health care company is making the changes as part of an organizational redesign, a Novant Health spokesperson said. This comes with reducing positions, which will mainly impact management and administrative roles.
The hospital system said it will do “everything we can” to support the people losing their jobs.
Novant is Charlotte region’s second biggest health care provider, behind longtime rival Atrium Health. Novant would not say how many of the layoffs were in the Charlotte region.
“In a challenging healthcare environment, we are focused on how we can work differently to prioritize direct patient care, operate more efficiently and reimagine how we serve our patients,” Novant said in a statement.
Novant also laid off workers in late March. At that time, the hospital system confirmed that it eliminated 50 jobs, including several executives, The Charlotte Observer reported at the time.
About Novant and its layoffs
Novant said less than 0.5% of its 36,000 positions will be cut in the latest round of layoffs.
Novant Health is a nonprofit system comprised of 16 medical centers and 1,900 physicians in 800 locations in the Carolinas.
“This decision absolutely will not affect our ability to deliver high-quality, safe care to our patients and communities,” Novant said about the job cuts.
The layoffs announced Thursday is the biggest for Novant since 2015, when up to 400 people systemwide lost their jobs as part of a reorganization that began the year before, the Winston-Salem Journal reported. Some 157 workers were laid off in Charlotte and Winston-Salem from that move, the paper reported.
This story was originally published October 5, 2023 at 11:47 AM.
