High inflation and a shortage of patient clinicians spurred the decision to cut 770 Ochsner Health's CEO said it was 'the hardest change we have ever had to make' Louisiana's largest hospital system has laid off nearly 800 of its staff amid rising healthcare labor costs after the Covid pandemic emergency has come to an end. Ochsner Health announced today it was 'eliminating 770 positions' — around 2 percent of its entire staff — in 'the hardest change we have ever had to make'. It comes after extra money for healthcare systems from the government was cut off after Biden...