Despite making nearly $13 billion in profit last year, Kaiser plans to lay off 42 RNs and NPs

Registered nurses who work at Kaiser Permanente San Rafael facilities will hold a rally on Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025 to protest Kaiser’s plans to lay off 42 RNs and NPs from their outpatient clinics despite the health care giant posting nearly $13 billion in profits last year, announced California Nurses Association/National Nurses United (CNA/NNU) today. RNs point out that patients already suffer unacceptably long wait times — weeks and even months — to get an appointment or to be seen, and that further cuts to staff will delay and deprive Kaiser members of needed care, leading to potentially deadly consequences. The proposed cuts represent about one-third of nurses working in Kaiser San Rafael clinics.

“It’s absolutely unacceptable that Kaiser made $13 billion last year, yet is cutting staff,” said Colleen Gibbons, an RN in medical-surgical at Kaiser San Rafael and the chief nurse representative. “We already have patients in all kinds of clinics that wait weeks and weeks, even months, to get seen or scheduled for really important tests and procedures that save lives, like colonoscopies and getting checked out for skin cancers.

Who: RNs and NPs from Kaiser San Rafael facilities
What: Rally to stop unnecessary layoffs
When: Thursday, Aug. 21, Noon 12 p.m.
Where: Kaiser San Rafael downtown clinic, 1033 3rd St., San Rafael, CA, sidewalk outside clinic

“These layoffs are not because there is no need for our care,” said Hunter Mills, RN in the Special Needs Department. “The demand is greater than ever. The layoffs are actually all part of Kaiser’s grand master plan to keep pushing more and more patients to make do with telehealth, because it’s way cheaper for Kaiser to provide. But we nurses know that telephone calls and video visits are poor substitutes for a provider examining you in person, up close, in the flesh. Kaiser needs to reverse these layoffs, now!”

Nurses have been alerting and organizing their community to stop the layoffs through flyering and media ads, asking concerned Kaiser members and all patients to email The Permanente Medical Group CEO and Executive Director Maria Ansari to demand that she rescind the layoffs.

CNA represents about 500 registered nurses working in Kaiser San Rafael facilities, both hospital and outpatient clinics.

California Nurses Association/National Nurses United is the largest and fastest-growing union and professional association of registered nurses in the nation with more than 100,000 members in more than 200 facilities throughout California and more than 225,000 RNs nationwide.