Health care crisis hits Lowell General, causing layoffs, eliminating open jobs

LOWELL — Amid a growing health care crisis, Tufts Medicine is the latest organization to announce layoffs. Of its 13,000-person workforce, Tufts is eliminating '70 primarily administrative positions' and 170 open positions, according to the statement shared with The Sun Monday. At Lowell General Hospital, three employees, whose roles do not impact patient care, lost their jobs, and an additional 58 open positions were eliminated, according to a hospital spokesperson. The hospital employs about 3,400 people, the spokesperson said.