Some 30 employees with Upper Allegheny Health System have been laid-off at Bradford Regional Medical Center and Olean General Hospital. The move includes 16 employees from OGH and 15 employees from BRMC. Spokesman Dennis McCarthy said in a statement the layoffs were due to the hospitals’ poor financial performance in 2018. McCarthy faulted inadequate hospital reimbursements rates by Medicare, Medicaid and insurance companies and says losses for Upper Allegheny in 2018 are expected to be around $5.1 million. Upper Allegheny lost $5.6 million in 2017.