A Skid Row nonprofit filed 134 permanent layoffs effective November 3 — it is not a health center, but 117 of them sit on a campus a tracked FQHC co-operates

Homeless Health Care Los Angeles (HHCLA) filed three California WARN notices on September 2, 2026, processed September 4, all typed “Layoff Permanent” and all effective November 3, 2026: 442 Crocker St (117 employees), 655 Maple Ave (16), and 1282 W 2nd St (1) — 134 in total, coded NAICS 62. 🔑 HHCLA IS NOT AN FQHC, AND WE CHECKED RATHER THAN ASSUMED.

It is absent from our HRSA-derived directory, which does contain its Skid Row peers (JWCH Institute, Los Angeles Christian Health Centers, Central Neighborhood Health Foundation) — a real absence, not a coverage gap. Its own site describes a 501(c)(3) founded in 1986 with five program lines (Outreach, Wellbeing, Community, Housing, Training) and the words FQHC, federally qualified health center, Section 330, HRSA and Look-Alike appear on it zero times.

We could not reach HRSA's own record (findahealthcenter.hrsa.gov is a JavaScript app that returns nothing to a fetcher), so this is strong convergent evidence, not an HRSA-record confirmation. 🔑 THE FQHC ANGLE IS REAL AND IT IS INDIRECT — AND WE VERIFIED IT AT THE COUNTY'S OWN SOURCE. 442 S. Crocker Street is the Skid Row Care Campus, which began providing services in April 2025.

Los Angeles County's own page states verbatim: “The community organizations running the campus and services are Homeless Health Care Los Angeles, Social Model Recovery Systems and Wesley Health Centers.” Wesley Health Centers is the operating name of JWCH Institute, a Section 330 health center in our directory.

So 117 of the 134 layoffs — 87 percent — land on a campus an FQHC co-runs. That is a partner-capacity story, not an FQHC layoff, and it should be read that way. NO CAUSE IS ESTABLISHED.

As of this review there is no news coverage of these notices at all; we are ahead of the press by a week. Context, explicitly not causation: Los Angeles County approved an $843M homelessness plan carrying roughly $200M in cuts for FY2026-27 and separately moved $300M+ away from LAHSA to stand up its own homelessness department.

A May 29, 2026 report put HHCLA's revenue at roughly $3.2M in 2011 growing to $20.6M in FY2024 with about 96 percent from government sources — that dependency is the visible vulnerability, but no source ties it to these notices. NO UNION IS ESTABLISHED EITHER: an NLRB case search for the organization returns no cases, and no union statement has surfaced. ⚠️ Do not merge this with LAHSA's 284 SEIU 721-represented layoffs noticed April 30 and effective June 30, 2026 — different organization, different event, different months.

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