The LSU System announced Monday it will cut $24 million in spending through out the next year, largely by eliminating more than 300 jobs from the Interim LSU Public Hospital in New Orleans.The announcement comes on the heels of a management study reported on by The Times-Picayune, which showed management inefficiencies adding up to more than $66 million a year.”The study clearly demonstrates the ineffectiveness and inefficiencies of committee governance in operating an academic teaching hospital,” said LSU System President John Lombardi. “LSU is taking action and putting into effect the recommendations of this professional study.”The report stated $46 million could be saved by eliminating 659 full-time positions, including more than 126 nurse managers with “administrative titles and without routine patient care responsibilities.”—-Contact Katie Kennedy at [email protected]