Lifespan is describing the layoff of 20-percent of its executives as a strategic restructure.
It's estimated the cuts will save Rhode Island's largest hospital group 6-million-dollars in the fiscal year that starts October first.
Lifespan owns Rhode Island Hospital, The Miriam, Newport and Bradley hospitals.
It's also in the process of buying two hospitals in nearby Massachusetts owned by Bankrupt Steward Health Care, Saint Anne's in Fall River and Morton in Taunton.
(Photo: Lifespan Health)