Pomona Hospital Medical Center California Layoffs 2026: What Employees Should Know

What the filing says

These are the details as Pomona Hospital Medical Center reported them to the state. The EDD publishes every notice, and this page reflects the data as of Jul 31, 2026.

How much notice the law requires

California's WARN Act requires 60 days of advance written notice before a covered mass layoff. What makes the California version unusual is how few ways out it gives an employer. The only statutory exception is a physical calamity or an act of war. Federal law has three exceptions, including one for unforeseeable business circumstances, and the California Legislature deliberately declined to copy them.

Pomona Hospital Medical Center severance: what to check before you sign

A severance offer is not the same thing as the notice pay the WARN Act describes, and an employer cannot use one to satisfy the other. A release may also give up more than you expect, and an arbitration agreement you signed at hire can affect where a dispute is heard. Read our full guide to the California WARN Act before you decide, and consider having the paperwork looked at.

Two things worth doing this week either way. File for unemployment now, because WARN money does not reduce it. And keep every document, including the notice itself and anything showing when it arrived.

What your notice was required to include

Timing is only half of what Labor Code section 1401 asks for. The notice itself has to contain specific things, and California added most of this list for notices issued on or after January 1, 2026. Every notice on this page falls after that date. If you kept your copy, it is worth reading down this list against it.

• Everything federal law requires. A California notice has to carry all the elements the federal WARN Act calls for, including whether the action is permanent, the expected date, and whether bumping rights exist.
• Whether transition help is being coordinated. The notice must say whether the employer is arranging services through your local workforce development board, through some other organization, or not at all.
• A working email and phone number for that board, plus a short standard paragraph pointing you to an America's Job Center of California for help with a resume, interview practice, job searching, and training programs.
• Services arranged within 30 days. If the employer said it would coordinate services, the statute gives it 30 days from the date of the notice to actually set them up.
• CalFresh information. A description of the CalFresh food assistance program, the benefits helpline, and a link to the CalFresh website.
• A working email and phone number for the employer. Not a no-reply address — a route back to a person.

Source: Labor Code section 1401, as amended by SB 617 (Stats. 2025, ch. 229), effective January 1, 2026. A notice missing something on this list is not automatically a violation with a remedy attached, and this page does not say that it is. Whether a gap matters depends on the employer, the action, and what else happened.

Questions people are asking

What has been reported

Press coverage of this layoff, summarized and attributed. This is reporting rather than the filing itself, and we did not independently verify it.

Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center, a 427-bed nonprofit employing about 4,000 people, announced it would eliminate 265 positions — 128 through unfilled vacancies and planned retirements and 137 through layoffs and hour reductions — effective March 8, 2026, according to KVCR News and Becker's Hospital Review.

The hospital cited federal and state funding reductions tied to the HR-1 budget law, which cut Medi-Cal reimbursements and the California Hospital Quality Assurance Fee, reducing its 2025 revenue budget by $40 million, with an additional $20 million reduction projected from lower Covered California participation and reduced Disproportionate Share Hospital payments, per Becker's. CEO Richard Yochum said, 'It is with deep regret that we must take these difficult actions.'

The reductions span management, clinical and nonclinical roles, including seven registered nurse positions; the hospital said patient care services would not be directly affected, though SEIU Local 121RN disputed that, saying some proposed cuts involve direct patient care workers and the Women's Center.

Sources: KVCR News (opens in a new tab) · Becker's Hospital Review (opens in a new tab) · SEIU Local 121RN (opens in a new tab)

What the numbers show

• The filings name 2 locations: Pomona and Claremont.
• They cover 3 separate addresses rather than a single site, so co-workers at different locations may have received different dates.
• By headcount it sits in the top 35% of the 593 employer layoffs tracked here.
• The 113 workers leaving Pomona Hospital Medical Center re-enter a job market where Los Angeles County unemployment stood at 5.3% in June 2026, above the 5.2% statewide rate (Bureau of Labor Statistics, not seasonally adjusted).
• All 3 notices are dated within a single month, January 2026, which reads as one event reported site by site rather than a rolling reduction.

These are counts and comparisons drawn from the published filings, not findings about Pomona Hospital Medical Center.

Free job-search help near the affected sites

America's Job Center of California is the state's no-cost network for laid-off workers: help filing and keeping unemployment benefits, federally funded retraining, and résumé and interview coaching. Your WARN notice may name one; this is the closest to the site in these filings.

• Pomona Valley Comprehensive AJCC (opens in a new tab)

  1460 E. Holt Avenue, Pomona, CA 91767 · 909-242-7999

  Comprehensive center (full services on site) · about 0.8 miles from the Pomona site

Locations and hours change — confirm before visiting, or find another center with the EDD's center locator (opens in a new tab). Directory: U.S. Department of Labor, Jul 31, 2026; distances are straight-line from the address in the filing.

Other layoffs filed in Los Angeles County around the same time

158 employers have WARN notices on file in Los Angeles County, covering 17,303 workers. These filed within about a quarter of this one.

• HRL Laboratories383 workers
• Phillips 66298 workers
• Lakeshore Learning Materials, LLC280 workers
• Lodging Dynamics Hospitality Group, LLC278 workers
• Saks & Company LLC231 workers
• L.A. Care Health Plan225 workers

Listed because they appear in the same county in the same public data. No connection between these employers is implied.