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PeaceHealth eliminated another 1% of its workforce in February, cutting about 150 jobs across Oregon, Washington and Alaska.
PeaceHealth made additional layoffs this week, cutting an additional 1% of its total workforce.
The February reductions are the latest in a series of cuts across the network’s hospitals, medical centers and clinics in Oregon, Washington and Alaska.
PeaceHealth reported roughly 16,000 employees in early May 2025. It eliminated 162 positions later that month, followed by 18 job cuts in September and 241 in October.
As of February 2026, a 1% reduction amounts to roughly 150 jobs — the same number PeaceHealth nurse Anne Wright said employees were told would be eliminated during a Microsoft Teams call around 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 11.
Wright, a registered nurse with PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Hospice in Springfield, said her position was among those cut. Wright told Lookout Eugene-Springfield she received no advance notice and that her last day is “as soon as possible.”
She has watched repeated rounds of cuts during the past year.
“It is going to impact patient care. They are not considering patients,” said Wright, who spoke to Lookout Eugene-Springfield as a member of her union, Oregon Nurses Association, not on behalf of her employer.
In an email to Lookout Eugene-Springfield, PeaceHealth spokesperson Jim Murez did not specify the number of people, their roles, or location of cuts. He confirmed a “decision to reduce roles systemwide, affecting less than 1% of our workforce.”
“We are in a period of transformation that calls for both courage and compassion. As the healthcare landscape continues to shift rapidly, hospitals and health systems are redesigning how they deliver care to provide more convenient, cost-effective and innovative services,” Murez said in a written statement.
Oregon Nurses Association spokesperson Kevin Mealy sent a statement to Lookout-Eugene Springfield condemning the layoffs.
“At a time when federal policies are already threatening access to healthcare, executives are choosing to make Trump-style cuts to our community’s care instead of real investments in the health and well-being of Oregonians,” Mealy said in a statement. “Fewer frontline caregivers does not mean there will be fewer patients; it means longer waits and lower-quality healthcare for all.”
The layoffs come about a week after PeaceHealth announced it would end its contract with about 50 doctors and physician assistants who work under Eugene Emergency Physicians.
This story was updated to reflect Wright speaking as a member of her union.
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