Staff cuts at an Ohio Planned Parenthood affiliate have been finalized, according to the union who represents workers there. Amid the cuts, staff were also notified that a clinic in the system will close this month.
Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio announced the plan for cuts in early November, but with the union in place, negotiations were necessary before details could be finalized.
The cuts came into play because of federal spending losses specifically for Planned Parenthood nationally, but also cuts to Medicaid, which makes up a significant base of patients for the organization.
Nationally, Planned Parenthood has said the Medicaid cuts will impact more than 1 million patients, and put more than 200 clinics at risk.
Two primary care/family planning clinics in Planned Parenthood Southwest Ohio Region’s system already closed earlier this year due to the cuts.
The Greater Ohio affiliate’s union, Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio Workers United, works under the Office of Professional Employees International Union Local 98.
Union organizer Clarie Randall told the Capital Journal that the reduction in force was implemented on Nov. 18.
Leaders at the affiliate confirmed the date the staff cuts went into effect, saying the cuts “impacted 17 staff members in family planning across the organization.”
Staff were notified by affiliate leaders that the clinic in Franklinton would be closing as part of the staff reduction, with all workers at that location subject to the layoffs.
In their statement to the Capital Journal on Friday, Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio said it has “altered staffing arrangements” at the Franklinton and North Columbus locations.
“Ultimately, we will close the Franklinton location on Nov. 28, 2025, and we will work to transfer these patients to our North Columbus location,” the statement read.
Leaders at the organization said the federal spending and Medicaid cuts amounted to about $10 million in losses for the Ohio branch alone.
Medicaid patients make up about 40% of the recipients of their care, according to Erica Wilson-Domer, president and CEO of the Greater Ohio branch.
So the loss of those patients on top of other federal funding cuts caused a need for “right-sizing” as Wilson-Domer put it when the reduction in force was announced in November.
The closure of the Franklinton clinic will leave 11 health centers across Ohio, along with two ambulatory surgical centers in Bedford Heights and Columbus.
Randall said the workers understand that “nobody wants to be doing these layoffs,” but some action had to take place.
This second reduction in force came “seemingly out of nowhere,” however, just months after the first staff cuts made by the organization in the summer of 2025.
“While we as the union have a different take on where the money could come from to fill the gaps, and think that management should be taking a little bit more of the burden on, there are financial holes to be filled,” Randall said.
The first cuts were also attributed to a lack of funding to sustain operations as usual.
The summer reduction cut a total of 20 staff members, 17 of which were members of the union.
“People definitely weren’t expecting this quick of a turnaround for another (reduction in force),” Randall said.
Wilson-Domer said in November that cuts to the tune of $2 million had already happened at the administrative level, and that area of the organization had “gotten as lean as we can go.”
Planned Parenthood state leaders have maintained that none of the federal funding they have received has gone to abortion care, since that has long been prohibited by federal law.
