California recorded 5 nurse deactivations in this week’s NPI registry update, representing 9% of the national total. All five records were individuals; the update listed 0 organizations among California’s deactivated nurse providers. The records were dated from August 17 through August 23, 2026, and the state’s activity accounted for a defined share of national nurse deactivations during the reporting period.
Credentials
Nurse Practitioner was the most common retired taxonomy, with 2 records, or 40% of California’s total. Psychiatric/Mental Health Registered Nurse, Family Nurse Practitioner and Registered Nurse each accounted for 1 record, or 20%. The credential mix therefore covered advanced practice, psychiatric nursing and general registered nursing rather than a single dominant specialty. Because the total is small, the distribution describes this week’s registry activity and does not establish a broader workforce trend.
Cities
The five records came from five cities: Oakland, Bakersfield, Hanford, Mountain View and Oceanside. Each city appeared once, so the listed activity was geographically dispersed across the state rather than concentrated in one location. The city pattern offers no clear local cluster in this update, while the credential distribution shows limited representation across several nursing categories. NPI deactivation is an administrative registry status and does not by itself indicate a license action or confirm that a provider has stopped practicing.
California’s weekly data show five individual nurse NPI deactivations, with varied credentials and no repeated city, providing a limited snapshot of registry changes rather than a measure of active workforce capacity.
