Lebanon — Dartmouth-Hitchcock will lay off 84 employees as it responds to a financial crisis that surfaced when it ended fiscal year 2016 in June with a $12 million deficit.

Last month D-H announced that it would lay off as many as 460 employees from its flagship Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital and clinics around New Hampshire. 

But in a memorandum addressed “to the Dartmouth-Hitchcock community” and sent out this morning, Chief Executive Officer James Weinstein said that managers had concluded that they would be “able to largely achieve our goal” through attrition, a reduction in open and unfilled positions and delaying some new hires.

The layoffs will take place over the next 60 days.

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Posted at 12:55 p.m. For a full report, see Tuesday’s Valley News. Follow Dartmouth-Hitchcock news at www.vnews.com/dh.