(TNS) — The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center is laying off about 1,000 employees, according to a news report.
The cuts affect about 1% of the 100,000 or so employees at the Pittsburgh-based healthcare system, which includes both the UPMC health care system and the UPMC Health Plan and its other units, according to the Pittsburgh Business Times.
The layoffs were systemwide and UPMC said it would offer severance pay and benefits to those impacted, the newspaper reported.
It’s not clear how many of the positions are in UPMC in Central Pa. where the healthcare system has a presence in Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Fulton, Juniata, Lancaster, Lebanon, Mifflin, Perry, and York counties including seven hospitals in the Harrisburg, Carlisle, Mechanicsburg, York, Lititz and Hanover areas.
Harrisburg-based PinnacleHealth System and Pittsburgh-based UPMC merged in 2017. UPMC dropped the PinnacleHealth name in 2021.
