Despite a prominent healthcare provider permanently eliminating more than 200 positions across its Florida facilities last week, its Ocala location was noticeably left off the list.

Sanitas Medical Centers, operating under parent company Keralty, recently issued official Worker Adjustment and Rehabilitation Notification (WARN) letters to state and local regulators detailing a widespread reduction in force that has impacted 211 employees statewide.

The Sanitas Medical Center location in Ocala, which is situated at 2441 SW 27th Avenue, was omitted from the list of affected job sites.

According to the official notifications submitted by Sanitas HR Labor Specialist Juan A. Lopez, the mass layoffs officially went into effect on Tuesday, June 9.

Although Marion County was unaffected, in nearby Lake County, the Sanitas facility in Clermont lost two dozen employees.

The healthcare company cited a combination of corporate restructuring and severe budgetary constraints as the primary reasons behind the downsizing. Corporate management confirmed that the job cuts are permanent and that no bumping rights are available to any of the displaced staff members.

In Orange County, 38 workers were laid off across regional facilities, while a clinic in St. Cloud in Osceola County lost 12 staff members.

The majority of the company’s workforce reductions occurred in South Florida, spearheaded by 126 terminations in Miami-Dade County. That includes 115 dissolved positions at the corporate headquarters in Doral and another 17 job cuts across Broward County facilities.

The corporate restructuring also eliminated nine positions in the Tampa region, ten positions in Tallahassee, three in Fort Myers, and one in Jacksonville.

The permanent job losses spanned a wide variety of medical, technical, and operational classifications within the organization. Terminated positions listed in the corporate disclosures included family practitioners, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, medical assistants, phlebotomists, ultrasound technologists, behavioral health counselors, and specialized medical coding and billing experts.

The state’s Rapid Response Coordinator has already been deployed to coordinate with local workforce boards to provide immediate re-employment services, transition assets, and training resources to the hundreds of healthcare workers affected by the sudden statewide downsizing.

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