Post here if you've received the axe or know others who have. Let's see if we can get a general sense of how deep this cut is and which teams were affected. Good luck everyone!
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Had an appointment today (7/30/24) with Optum doctor. He told me that 20% of entire Optum staff in FL, GA, AL, TX and other states (7 in all) were fired on same day. Firings ran from receptionists to doctors. Everyone received an email for a meeting, told not to go to office that day. First batch were people fired in AI "meeting;" everyone retained had a separate "meeting" and were told to go to work.
RN, admin (FL-OPTUM-optum and wellmed are merging in FL to "OneTeam"), almost 5 years; pay grade 26. They always make sure to lay off those with the higher chance of stock purchase and 401K vesting coming up at 5 years, 10 years, and so on. The longer you are with the company, the more you cost to them as an employee of their company. It's sad that you put your entire life into this company to serve patients in need when constantly understaffed, just to be dumped like a piece of trash. Meanwhile, CEO's and those in senior leadership are making unheard of increased bonuses. Listen to the UnitedHealth Group Q2 2024 Earnings Call video and read their earnings report: https://www.unitedhealthgroup.com/investors.html. They continue to blame things on Change healthcare (which may I remind you is THEIR third-party company that was hit by cyber-attack), while continuously increasing earnings. This company chooses to lay off employees vital to the patients they serve with no remorse. The only thing this company cares about is their pockets-any and every single penny they can save (even though it affects employees and patients tremendously in a negative way). PS, they always do layoffs RIGHT after their earnings summary announcements in the spring and in the fall.
medical receptionist florida i got the boot and i heard one of our offices here got rid of the only doctor in its practice… not sure what they plan to do there and i heard the one in the villages completely shut down
Have a 60 minute meeting invite from VP, are we going down?
has anyone heard about TOCCs yet?
Landmark in TN had three metros shut down today. Nurse practitioners, case managers, social work all gone. They kept two people in Chattanooga, three in East TN, don't know how many in Memphis.
Half the branch let go. You been cut, you guys stay. Absolutely blindsided.no longer proud to work for this company.
Absolutely awful day in Northeast, nurse care managers,BH,SW, Cha’s and it was beyond obscene how tactless, disturbing even more to expect patient facing roles to go see patients… what are we supposed to tell our patients? I won’t lie to our patients. They deserve so much better, as do we as employees
I’m in the California market. Our whole Social Work team and Behavioral Health team was let go today. Our patients received so much support from us! So sad. I’m a LCSW.
What was the number of lay offs in the Optum FL market? Roles? Location? Looks like Wellmed was the main focus.
Does anyone know ANYTHING about the WARN layoff law in California where they are supposed to give 60-day notice?? All I can find is it has to be more than 50 employees.... does that mean 50 let go in your immediate team??
Today about 20 people on my team and 5 managers (from what I was told through the grapevine) were all let go with no notice. We were in clinical quality and I am a 25 pay grade. Pathetic severance package after working for the company for years.
Today Landmark East almost all Social Workers and all Behavioral Health Care Managers are gone. All Community Health Advocates/Outreach, most Health Services Managers, Care Coordinators gone or “redeployed.” Profit before patient care reigns supreme! This after they beat earnings estimates for 2nd Quarter. Landmark is being taken apart but by bit to avoid “WARN” notifications. Best to updat resume and start looking.
Optum infusion is also impacted. As of Monday, no new acute referrals. As of Aug 1st, no more refills, patients will have to be triaged. And they’re closing 5 or 6 infusion branches.
I am an Urgentivist Extender/LPN in AR. All Nurse care managers, RN’s and care coordinators were let go today with no reason at all.
NCM Tampa, in 5 min, world changed. RIF. Not the only vital role in this clinic sent packing. Minimal info given, and what was, too fast to even write down... just to wait for further information and may apply for an open position. 2 week window.
Optum Infusion Pharmacy Tampa, closing Sept 20th
LM NCM here. MI market CHAs and top 3 Care Coordinator Leads let go (with director not notified or allowed to choose lesser ranked employees). Merging all MI soon it seems. The Blue Cross insurance contract through 2025 saving the market for now. UEs to merge with LM1 and managed by them. So sorry to those let go!
Landmark Urgentivist/APC in New England. They let go of the Market Medical Director for NH/ME, so that is likely one region being phased out. Urgentivist meeting was as clear as mud, stating that if your metro closes "you will still have a place". Also said we were all staying "at this point"...and half of our NCMs (nurse care managers)/CCs (care coordinators). Appears CHAs are gone too. Expected to work the rest of the day without half of our team, unsure how we can function without NCMs and CCs.
Optum Urgent Care in So Cal. 60 days before closing.
Landmark- Community Health Advocate (CHA) and managers have been let go at the local level.
CHA (community health advocates) and CHA managers have been eliminated across the board. Landmark division.
Health Informatics in Tampa. Whole team including manager all laid off. In the meeting I saw names of corporate people as well including higher ups. One call at 9:00 got rid of over 100 people.
I am a Care Coordinator in Ohio with Landmark Health/HBMC. Had a 15 min meeting at 8:30 this morning and was told that I was “transitioning” to OptumRx. 3 out of 7 of us were transitioned. The other 4 I believe are staying within Landmark/HBMC.
DO NOT count on the redeployment team, it’s an absolute joke.
Landmark APC hire my entire market just laid off TN SW-CC-NCM. We all had invites with VP for 15 minutes more meetings to follow for us to advise how to proceed. Did say had many open jobs with Optum for redeployment.
OSS (Outreach Support Specialist -Landmark role) are being redeployed to Optum Rx. I believe CC (Care Coordinator Landmark role) will be joining them. But the CC leads are bring RIFed. I guess someone saw the value in keeping the lower paid clerical support roles and using them elsewhere. But axed anyone who makes any real money. This is greed. Plain and simple.
30 minute call with over a thousand people in it. Just to let us know that some clinics are closing and that if we were on that call we still had jobs. We have to return to the clinics this afternoon for another meeting. And they used AI tell us this. This is madness. How can we feel safe even if we're still employed. My thoughts go out to everyone who lost their jobs today.
Just got off a 30 minute call. It was to inform everyone of what has happened. It did not last 30 minutes.
30 minute meetings could go either way. Could be notification, but could also be to let the team know about who was let go. It really depends on the management.
30 minute meeting at 1:30. Survivors call or axe?
Do 30m meetings mean you’re being retained? There is a 30m meeting at Noon
30 minute team meeting with CDU all products. Pretty sure some of us are about to get the axe
Well it begins, we lost 3 more employees
This is bad...looks like a lot of people who actually help care for our patients have been let go. This is madness!
NCM is nurse case manager
What is an NCM?
NCM in the east, been with the company just shy of 2 years. Was laid off this morning. At least 7 NCMs in my market that I know of. I was a Landmark hire. Looks like they used seniority to decide who was getting the axe. I knew it might be coming, but still upsetting. You know when they say Nurses are safe in the month leading up to the Thursday after the earnings report, to not believe them. This company is awful! Barbaric in its handling of layoffs.
Not positive but hearing NCM in some markets are being laid off. TN ? Maybe. For Landmark
Clinic nurse in Tampa FL, laid off.