WASHINGTON, PENNSYLVANIA — The Washington Health System in southwestern Pennsylvania has announced they are laying off healthcare staff due to several of their departments temporarily closing under the Gov. Tom Wolf’s state mandate that halted elective surgeries and diagnostic procedures.

Those cessations closed many of their outpatient services and caused a drastic decrease in inpatient, emergency department, and outpatient service utilization at all of their hospitals and physician offices, according to Lawrence Pantuso, the vice president of strategy and clinical services at the Washington Health System.