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The University of Miami's medical school on Tuesday started laying off up to 800 workers, NBC 6 learned.

The layoffs at the Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine will be completed by May 31, the end of UM's fiscal year. A Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification was posted to floridajobs.org.

A UM spokeswoman told NBC 6 that no clinical staff workers who directly deal with patients are affected and that some workers will be rehired in restructured positions.

In a letter sent to employees April 24, Miller's Dean Dr. Pascal Goldschmidt announced the reductions, calling them "painful but essential."

"There are no easy choices due to decreases in government funding, health insurance changes, and the financial struggles of our valued partners at Jackson Memorial Hospital, and it is clear that part of our strengthening must involve rightsizing our organization and reducing our workforce," Goldschmidt said. "To remain focused on providing better care to our community, we are reducing administrative duplication and unfunded research so we may deploy more resources to our clinical operations."

Goldschmidt told NBC 6 that "patient care is entirely untouched."

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UM's Medical School Laying Off 800 Workers