San Diego
The owners of San Diego Physicians & Surgeons Hospital announced Friday that they will postpone the closure of the emergency room until April 30.
National Medical Enterprises had announced that it would close the emergency room, which serves the largely low-income minority community of Southeast San Diego, on March 28.
But the company has been buoyed by progress in its effort to sell the hospital to Nationwide Medical Systems of Perris, Calif., and a group of local physicians.
Donald Thayer, vice president of development for NME, said he hopes to complete the sale sometime in April. The city of San Diego must relinquish title to the hospital for the sale to be completed.
Thayer said that NME is losing about $3 million annually at the hospital, primarily because of the many uninsured or under-insured patients treated there.
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