SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) - Baystate Health is cutting 134 leadership positions as the hospital group works to address its financial problems. In a statement to 22News, a spokesperson for Baystate Health said the staff reduction impacts less than 1% of their workforce.  Some of the impacted positions are currently vacant and will no longer be filled, but there are also leaders leaving Baystate. Massachusetts tracking increases in whooping cough, pneumonia Baystate Health said they are working to find alternate positions for people whose jobs were eliminated. Eligible employees who are not moved to other positions will receive severance pay and other job support, including access to career transition services. Baystate Health has seen $300 million in operating losses over the past few years. They said the current transformation will allow the hospital group to invest $1.2 billion back into the hospital, its employees, and the community over the next six years. Baystate Health continues to recruit and hire physicians, Advanced Practice Providers and bedside caregivers. Local News Headlines Mass Clean Energy Week brought EVs to a Palmer racetrack DCR names new Indigenous Peoples partnership coordinator The American Cancer Society’s VOICES of Black Women study launched in Massachusetts Brushfire risk persists in Massachusetts WWLP-22News, an NBC affiliate, began broadcasting in March 1953 to provide local news, network, syndicated, and local programming to western Massachusetts. Watch the 22News Digital Edition weekdays at 4 p.m. on WWLP.com.