Outraged physician’s assistant says she spent $30,000 moving from California to Texas for new job – only to get nasty surprise when she arrived

An angry medical assistant claims she spent nearly $30,000 moving from California to Texas for a new job, only to find her job had already been eliminated when she arrived.

Mojgan Pedram alleges in a lawsuit that she had a steady job in an emergency room in California, but decided to work at Texas Children’s Hospital because she was so passionate about children.

“Everything was already arranged and I moved,” she told Click on Houston.

‘I moved here and wanted to become financially stable again, but in a second everything fell apart.’

Pedram said she took a job in April and went to the hospital in late May to undergo a medical check-up.

Pedram says she then got a call from the hospital saying they were putting the job offer on hold.

“I asked them, ‘How long have you known about this and not told me?’” she recalled asking hospital staff.

‘And they said, “Well, it’s been going on for two months,” and then I said, “I was offered the job within two months, so you already knew about it. Why didn’t you even tell me or inform me?”‘

She said she had already spent about $30,000 on her move from California to Texas, but that doesn’t even include “all the costs of flying, you know, that kind of thing,” and then having to find a place to live here in a short period of time.

Her lawyer, Jacob Scholl, now says Pedram was a victim of the hospital’s hiring freeze.

“The lesson is that Texas Children’s Hospital, with all their bureaucracy, is pushing their employees aside,” he told Click 2 Houston.

“It seems like they don’t care about the decisions they make and the consequences they have, not only for the individual employees, but also for the community and their families.”

The lawsuit comes after Texas Children’s Hospital announced it is laying off 5 percent of its workforce

DailyMail.com has contacted Texas Children’s Hospital for comment.

But on Tuesday, the company announced it would lay off 5 percent of its workforce amid a series of financial problems.

Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer Linda Aldred told the Houston Chronicle The hospital has approximately 20,000 employees, spread across 120 locations. A 5 percent reduction in staff would result in the loss of approximately 1,000 jobs.

The cuts are being implemented across departments, from frontline workers to executives, the Chronicle reports.

According to Aldred, some of the employees being laid off are recent hires, while others have been with the hospital for more than 20 years.

Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer Linda Aldred blamed the layoffs on “historic challenges” within the health care industry

She blamed the layoffs on “historic challenges” within the health care sector, including rising costs for both supplies and labor, and the end of the health care emergency because of the pandemic.

“Hospitals and healthcare facilities across the country are making this challenging decision. And that’s where we really stood,” she told the Chronicle.

“This was a very difficult decision for us.”

Aldred noted that the hospital considered other options and even reduced its leadership by about 10 percent before deciding layoffs were necessary.

Executives also are facing pay cuts this fiscal year, she said, after the hospital reported a loss of nearly $200 million in operating revenue in the first six months of the current fiscal year.

Several factors, including lower patient volumes in Houston and a two-week delay in opening a new campus in Austin, contributed to the loss.