WARN letters list 944 jobs lost with closure of Trumbull Regional, Hillside Rehabilitation Hospital

Letters sent to the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services show that 944 people will lose their jobs because Steward Health Care decided to shut down hospitals in the Mahoning Valley.

The so-called WARN letters, submitted by Steward human resource executives, are mandated under the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, which requires communities to be notified about mass layoffs.

One letter says that Steward will permanently close Trumbull Regional Medical Center on September 20, 2024, and the services of 765 employees will no longer be needed.

The letter lists many job titles ranging from technicians, and mechanics, to phone operators.

The largest classification of job loss is registered nurses where 184 positions are being eliminated.

The WARN notice for Hillside Rehabilitation Hospital in Howland also sets a September 20 closing date, stating that 170 employees will be out of work. 

At Hillside, the hardest-hit job classifications are registered nurses and physical therapists, with 21 people losing their jobs in each category.

 A WARN notice was also sent to the state announcing the closure of Northside Regional Medical Center.

Although Northside closed on September 20, 2018, Steward still employed nine people at the building on Gypsy Lane in Youngstown.  Those positions, some of them union jobs, will be eliminated on September 20, six years after Steward closed the hospital.

Since the bankrupt company plans to sell or close all its 31 hospitals around the country, the laid-off workers have no bumping rights, which allows workers to “bump” those less senior from their positions at other facilities.