Owens & Minor is closing its Avid Medical plant in Toano, Virginia, and the state has the paperwork to prove it. The notice puts the closure’s impact date at November 25 and the number of affected employees at 419, all at one address. The filing arrived on September 16, leaving roughly ten weeks before paychecks from the site stop.
What the Virginia Works WARN entry records for 9000 Westmont Drive
The state’s Virginia Works WARN notices database lists the filer as Owens & Minor (Avid Medical, LLC), with the site address given as 9000 Westmont Drive, Toano, VA 23168. The entry carries a notice date of 09/16/2026, an impact date of 11/25/2026 and a notice type of Closure. The count reads 419 employees. That is the figure for the Toano site alone, not a corporate-wide total, and the entry does not describe Owens & Minor’s other locations.
The parent company is the name at the front of the filing, and Avid Medical is the entity and plant name inside it. Owens & Minor presents itself on its corporate website as a provider of healthcare logistics services. The page does not mention Avid Medical or the Toano site. The entry lists no collective bargaining unit for the Toano workforce.
The filing names one person: the contact listed on the entry is Todd Landrum. The state database labels him the contact person rather than describing a title or quoting him, so the record carries no statement from the company about why the plant is closing, what happens to the work performed there or whether any employees will be offered positions elsewhere. Those questions remain unanswered in the public record as of October 4.
Seventy days between the September 16 notice and the November 25 impact date
The federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act sets the baseline. The Department of Labor’s WARN Act overview describes a standard requirement of 60 days of advance notice for qualifying plant closings and mass layoffs, applying to employers with 100 or more employees, with notice going to affected workers and the state dislocated worker unit. The count of 419 at one site is well above the 100-employee threshold the Labor Department describes.
Counting the days on the calendar, September 16 to November 25 is 70: 14 days left in September, 31 in October and 25 in November. That is ten days beyond the 60-day baseline. The date matters because it is the one on which the closure takes effect according to the state entry, not the date the notice was filed. The September 16 date marks when the state recorded the notice; the November 25 date is when the plant’s closure takes effect.
The filing offers no explanation for the timing or for the choice of impact date. The record supports the arithmetic and nothing more: a notice recorded in mid-September and a closure taking effect on November 25.
Filing with the Virginia Employment Commission costs nothing and goes through one portal
Unemployment insurance in Virginia is handled by the Virginia Employment Commission, and the agency’s homepage describes initial claims, reactivated claims and weekly claims as filed through its online Customer Self Service portal, with assistance provided at no cost. The same page carries a fraud alert: letters impersonating the U.S. Department of Labor, claiming a grant has been awarded and asking for personal information, are not legitimate, according to the VEC.
The agency’s unemployment filing page says claims are made through Customer Self Service, which is secured with ID.me, at uidirect.vec.virginia.gov. The call center number is 866-832-2363, open Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., with TTY access at 800-828-1140 or 711. Once a claim is open, the page says claimants must file a weekly certification every 7 days until they return to work.
The same page also records a change that applies to workers separated in late November: the weekly benefit amount increases by $48.00 for new unemployment claims filed on or after July 5, 2026. A claim opened after the Toano closure would fall in that group. The page does not state the resulting maximum, and the figures that decide an individual claim, such as base-period wages, are determined by the commission rather than by anything in the WARN entry.
Rapid Response coordinators and the Virginia Works directory
Layoff notices in Virginia feed a state program for dislocated workers. The Virginia Works Rapid Response page works mainly as a directory, listing five regional coordinators: Mark Brickey in Henrico, Beckie Cox in Radford, John Garrison in Lynchburg, Gregory Vaughn in Alexandria and Curtis Wray in Hampton. The page gives 804-486-2500 as the main office number. It does not say which coordinator covers Toano, and it does not describe the services in detail, so the directory is a starting point for a call rather than a menu of benefits.
The federal overview points the same direction. The notice to the state dislocated worker unit is the mechanism that is supposed to bring services to affected workers before the impact date arrives, giving the plant’s employees a window to look for new work or retraining while still on the payroll.
What the Toano filing leaves out
The state entry gives six hard facts: the company, the plant, the town, the 419 employees, the closure type and the two dates. It does not say how many of the 419 are full-time, what roles they hold, whether severance is planned or what the company intends to do with the building at 9000 Westmont Drive. The entry links to a PDF of the notice at virginiaworks.gov, but on the October 4 read that document returned no machine-readable text, so nothing beyond the database fields could be confirmed from it.
For a household with a paycheck from the site, the practical timeline is therefore short and fixed by the record: notice on September 16, last day of employment at the closure on November 25, and a state unemployment system that opens claims through a single portal and a single phone line. Owens & Minor has not published a statement through the sources read for this piece, so the state’s WARN entry remains the controlling record, and the Virginia Works database is the place where any amended notice would appear.
Bills keep their due dates after a payroll stops
The Toano closure takes effect on November 25, and the household obligations tied to those 419 paychecks do not carry a closure date of their own. Card payments, loan installments and collection calls continue on their own schedules once an income stream ends, which leaves a gap between the last paycheck and the first state unemployment payment.
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This piece was drafted with AI assistance; the notice details were checked against the Virginia Works WARN database, and the unemployment and Rapid Response details against Virginia Employment Commission and Virginia Works pages.
