Intermountain cutting 250 nonclinical jobs

Intermountain Healthcare says it will cut 250 office jobs to further its goal of making healthcare more affordable for patients.

To get there, Salt Lake City-based Intermountain plans to offer voluntary separation packages to about 750 business function employees who are at least 55 years old and have worked for the system for at least 10 consecutive years. Patient care positions won’t be affected. The health system employs 41,000.

The packages will vary by employee, but will include additional pay and benefits. Employees will have two weeks to decide whether to accept the agreements. If Intermountain doesn’t reach its 250-job goal through the voluntary measure, the system said it will resort to involuntary reductions.