From spreading off nurses at a chain of urgent care clinics to shutting down clinics in Florida and Minnesota. Some aspects of Optum are losing even with total revenue in the third quarter up 22% year over year.
In the recent news Optum owner MedExpress, urgent care mentioned Beckers on Nov.8 that they have shut down seven clinics in Minnesota and Florida. Some of the facilities are also disturbed such as in Lutz, West Tampa, Carrollwood and Boca Raton, Fla. And in Minnesota, clinics in Eden Prairie, West St. Paul, and Cloquet have closed.
After the closing of some of the clinics, the former workers with UnitedHealth group Optum and its subsidiaries also mentioned some of the more news on social media in September in company they are working on a number of layoffs.
As we move further about the news get to know that W.Va-based MedExpress urgent care also fired some of the registered nursing positions at nearly 150 facilities.
A regional senior security manager for Optum’s Pacific West region uses LinkedIn to tell that the part of the world reduction in UnitedHealth group and optum. He is also among those who use social; media to tell that they are laid off from the company.
At a time they have mentioned that company revenue has increased with revenue of 56.7 billion dollars. In the company data, you also see a clear increase of 35% in revenue year over year following the company buying Change Healthcare for $13 billion.
In September former Optum employees used the social media platform to share their information about the number of layoffs that occurred across the company.
Here are five things to know about Optum layoffs:
1. Optum allegedly laid off around 67 employees, including nurses, internal couriers, and human resource workers, from the Everett Clinic and the Polyclinic in Seattle, a former senior manager told The Daily Herald on Sept. 8. Optum purchased the clinics in 2017.
2. Optum-owned, Morgantown, W.Va.-based MedExpress Urgent Care will eradicate registered nursing positions at 150 facilities, nurse.org reported Aug. 21.
3. Optum subsidiary MedExpress Urgent Care cut nursing positions at nearly 150 locations “in an effort to revamp its staffing model,” according to an Aug. 11 article from ABC affiliate WTAE.
A MedExpress spokesperson did not confirm or deny the accuracy of the report when reached by Becker’s, though they did provide the following statement: “MedExpress continually assesses and evolves our staffing models to better remember urgent care industry standards. As always, we will reinforce team members involved with job sequence resources and desire to deploy them where attainable to any open roles within the company.”
4. Becker’s has not confirmed an exact number of employees who may have been terminated or when layoffs would be effective, and UnitedHealth Group has declined to provide specific information
5. “We continually reconsider the capacities and benefits we offer to meet the growing and unwinding deficiencies of our corporations and the people we serve,” UnitedHealth Group previously told Becker in a statement. “As always, we will support affected team members with job placement resources and seek to deploy them where possible to any open roles within the company.”