The State - News from April 21, 1988

Administrators for the University of California, Irvine, Medical Center, which now cares for most of Orange County’s poor children, assured worried community leaders that the planned move of its pediatrics department will not leave indigent children without care. Meeting behind closed doors, the administrators said the scheduled July 1 relocation of most of the pediatrics program to Childrens Hospital of Orange County still would allow for treatment of about 2,500 poor patients now served at the medical center. “CHOC now does not turn anyone away for a lack of ability to pay, and this will not change following the merger of the two departments,” CHOC spokeswoman Maureen Williams said.