“Other aspects of the cost restructuring include eliminating “admirable but not sustainable” programs...”
They just can’t bring themselves to say “bad idea”.
They are “bad ideas” in a business sense, but many not-for-profit health systems report “community benefit” expenses and contributions, which are typically benefits to the community that do not relate to core operations.
More importantly, entire hospital departments lose money every year but the organization deems those efforts worthy of the attention. The costs are covered by high-margin departments. A hospital may decide to eliminate entire services or outsource them just to cut the expense. I think that’s what they mean by admirable but not sustainable.