WARN Feed · layoffs by industry

US hospital and healthcare layoffs — the actual WARN Act filings, rebuilt every day

3,548 hospital and healthcare layoff and closing notices filed with state labour agencies under the WARN Act, from 1989 to 2026, covering 360,433 reported workers at 1,807 employers in 48 states. Free, CC BY 4.0, rebuilt every morning from the agency portals — no login, no key, no email.

Download every sector-tagged notice (CSV) This industry as its own dataset on Hugging Face

Who is in this cut

Included: hospitals, health systems, clinics, nursing and senior-living operators, home-health and hospice agencies, pharmacies, dental and physician groups and medical-device makers.

What counts as healthcare here: the employer name reads as a hospital, health system, clinic, nursing or senior-living operator, home-health/hospice agency, pharmacy chain, physician/dental/therapy group, ambulance or dialysis provider, or a medical-device maker (Medical in the name is enough — Stryker and ICU Medical sit next to Kaiser and Tenet). Drug makers and biotech are deliberately NOT here; they are in the sector dataset under pharma_biotech. A hospital food-service contractor whose name says Healthcare (Morrison, Crothall) IS here, because the rule reads the name — the sector_rule column shows you exactly why.

Why this file exists

Hospital closures and health-system layoffs are announced to the press a few employers at a time; the legal filings behind them — employer, site, workers affected, notice date, effective date, notice type — sit on 48 separate state portals and are never assembled as a healthcare series. This file is that series.

The employers with the most hospital and healthcare notices on record

Counted per notice, not per event: a company that files in four states files four notices. Employer names are the resolved spelling — the raw agency spelling is kept in the download.

The 15 most recent hospital and healthcare notices

Date is the notice date where the agency publishes one, otherwise the layoff date. 860 of the 3,548 notices in this cut are recorded as a closure rather than a layoff.

How the industry is decided: no state WARN portal publishes an industry field, so there is no NAICS column to filter on. The sector here is assigned from the resolved employer name by a published rule table (19 sectors, 3,152 patterns, first match wins), and every row carries the pattern that fired in its sector_rule column so you can audit or re-cut it. The archive holds 61,428 notices; 61,232 of them carry a usable date and are in the sector file (196 have no date in either column), 32,168 come out with a sector, and 29,064 stay unclassified — and are still counted in every total shown anywhere on this site. Manual audit 2026-09-12: 4 of 60 sampled rows were assigned to the wrong sector. Rebuilt 2026-09-24.

How to check any of this

Every number on this page is computed at build time from notices_by_sector.csv (one row per notice, with the sector and the rule that assigned it), and the yearly series from sector_by_year.csv. The free HTTP API serves the whole archive as JSON, NDJSON and per-state CSV with no key. This industry is also published as its own Hugging Face dataset, and the full sector cut as one file. If a number here disagrees with the file, the file is right and it is a bug — tell us and it is fixed the next morning.

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