Dartmouth-Hitchcock May Lay Off As Many As 460 Employees

Lebanon — Dartmouth-Hitchcock will lay off at least 270 employees, and as many as 460, before the end of 2016 and will review its clinical programs with an eye toward saving money, officials with the Lebanon-based health system said Friday.

Details of the layoff plans will be spelled out by mid-October, but D-H’s workforce is expected to be reduced by 3 percent to 5 percent, according to an email sent out Friday afternoon by Chief Executive Officer James Weinstein.

D-H’s system-wide workforce was 9,239 in June, according to spokesman Rick Adams.

The review of some of D-H’s hundreds of clinical programs would entail some “extremely difficult decisions,” Weinstein wrote. “We cannot be all things to all people.”

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