More than 200 workers losing jobs in Farmers Branch, Richardson and Irving

Some 200 workers across North Texas in the medical and tech industries lost their jobs. Here’s where Dallas-Fort Worth positions were cut:

Southwestern Health Resources

The medical group is laying off 129 workers at its Farmers Branch facility due to business conditions, Southwestern Health Resources said in a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification letter filed with the Texas Workforce Commission. All employees who will be permanently terminated were notified on Sept. 10.

Southwestern Health Resources is the medical provider alliance created in 2015 by Texas Health Resources and UT Southwestern Medical Center, two major hospital and doctor forces in North Texas. The same group laid off an undisclosed number of workers in September 2023.

Steward Medical Group, Inc.

The bankrupt Dallas-based hospital operator intends to permanently close a Richardson electronic intensive care unit. Steward Medical Group reported it expects 40 jobs to be cut by Oct. 29. The Richardson operation stopped a majority of its operations on Aug. 31.

The health care company declared bankruptcy in May and sold its managed-care businessess for $245 million in August. The deal allowed Steward to keep its primary-care doctors separate from the firm’s troubled hospital system.

A subsidiary of the group, Steward Health Care System, cut an additional 43 jobs in Texarkana as the company sold off a medical center. Steward Health expects a majority of the employees will be rehired by the hospital’s purchaser, according to a WARN Notice filed with the Texas Workforce Commission.

HCL America, Inc.

A restructuring of the U.S. arm of the global software company resulted in HCL America laying off 43 workers at its Irving client site. Affected employees were notified Aug. 29 and are set to be offered a new job within the company or for one of the company’s clients.

The tech company employs more than 20,000 across the U.S., according to its website, and has three HCL America offices in Texas.

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