SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - New Mexico’s leading health care system will have to eliminate more than 500 positions.

The chancellor for the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center has told legislators that recent state budget cuts and other revenue losses mean job cuts are coming.

Dr. Paul Roth said during a Legislative Finance Committee hearing that most of the jobs that face elimination are planned staff expansions that never were filled.

He says the rest of the job cuts can be handled through a regular attrition rate of about 8 percent to 10 percent a year.

The Santa Fe New Mexican reports (https://bit.ly/2h7jTFZ) the targeted positions include 33 doctors, 174 nurses, 167 hospital staff and 132 academic staff in the School of Medicine, nursing and pharmacy programs, and other research and education institutions.

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Information from: The Santa Fe New Mexican, https://www.sfnewmexican.com

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