PharMEDium will lay off 225 workers at its suspended Memphis outsourcing facility, its parent company announced.
The facility is “undergoing a workforce reorganization” that will cost 225 employees their jobs, according to a statement from parent company AmerisourceBergen.
The layoffs at PharMEDium are effective March 12, according to a WARN notice posted Monday with the state of Tennessee. WARN notices are generally required whenever a company has a mass layoff.
According to the WARN notice all 440 employees at the facility would be affected by the layoff, but the company said it is keeping 215 positions.
AmerisourceBergen said those losing their jobs will be offered severance benefits and career support services.
PharMEDium is a drug compounding company headquartered in Illinois. Its Memphis facility is the largest among PharMEDium’s four outsourcing locations.
AmerisourceBergen voluntarily suspended production at the facility in December 2017 following FDA inspections, it disclosed in an SEC filing. Also that December, PharMEDium issued a voluntary recall of drug products compounded at its Memphis facility “due to a lack of assurance of sterility.”