Sutter Health eliminated about 400 positions throughout its network earlier this month as "part of an effort to address a growing fiscal gap", officials confirmed to the San Francisco Chronicle on Thursday.
The system serves millions at 23 hospitals across Northern California.
The cuts impact "non-clinical positions and are not focused on any specific facility," a spokesperson told the paper. They're attributed to rising costs and flat-lining revenues that started before the COVID-19 crisis, officials added.
More cuts could be on the way.
Officials said Sutter is seeking to restructure, close programs and reduce services in areas of declining patient demand.
Sutter Health did not say which hospitals and clinics specifically would be affected by the layoffs, KXTV reported. The non-profit heath care system experienced a $1 billion operating loss in 2020, a shortage officials explained was "the toughest year in our 100-year history."
In early May, Kaiser Permanente went through a similar "restructuring" in cutting about 200 jobs across its Northern California region.
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