Management will also be forgoing incentive plan payouts.

There are no plans to cut pay for hourly workers, which includes most nurses.

"Our hourly employees will not receive a pay cut to ensure that nurses and support staff caring for COVID patients will have no change made to their pay rate," Kaplan said.

But the organization will be “flexing” hourly workers and salaried administrative and clinical staff to “match volume and work.”

“We recognize these changes have the potential to significantly impact some of our hourly wage earners,” Kaplan said. “In addition to being able to use paid leave to mitigate the impact, we will be providing additional information to hourly staff about applying for unemployment compensation and other support available to help them during this time.”

The measures will be in place from April 25 to at least June 20, at which point the measures will be reviewed in light of the COVID-19 situation.

“We are not the only health system forced to make these tough decisions during the COVID-19 response,” Kaplan said. “This has been happening around the state and across the country, forcing many hospitals and health systems to make similar decisions.”