The layoffs were slated to stem projected financial shortfalls and are occurring as part of an ongoing consolidation of the state's largest health care system.

The hospital giant, one of the state's top employers, “is acting now” to close the $250 million budget gap over the next two years.

Cooley Dickinson Hospital’s parent organization, Boston-based Mass General Brigham, announced a second round of layoffs Monday. The cutbacks are aimed at closing a $250 million budget gap within the next two years at Mass General Brigham,