Public Ideas Sought on Hospital Site Selection
The county is embarking on a series of community meetings about where to locate a new 350-bed medical center that will serve parts of Southeast Los Angeles County and the San Gabriel Valley.
The hospital is designed mostly for low-income patients and is meant to augment services of County-USC Medical Center.
Some of the sites under consideration are on Workman Mill Road near Whittier, adjacent to the Pico Rivera golf course at the northern boundary of Pico Rivera, and adjacent to the City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte. Additional proposed locations will be described at the hearings by representatives of the county Department of Health Services.
The Los Angeles County Hospitals Commission will conduct the meetings. The first is from 7 to 9 p.m. tonight at Baldwin Park High School, 3900 N. Puente Ave., Baldwin Park. There will be two hearings Saturday at El Rancho High School, 6501 S. Passons Blvd., Pico Rivera. The first will be from 10 a.m. until noon and the second from noon until 2 p.m.
The remaining meetings are scheduled from 7 to 9 p.m. on the following dates at these locations: Monday at Whittier Center Theater, 7630 Washington Blvd., Whittier; Tuesday at Don Julian Elementary School, 13855 Don Julian Road, La Puente; Wednesday at Ganesha High School, 1151 Fairplex Drive, Pomona; and July 2 at the Duarte Unified School District Performing Arts Center, 1401 Highland Ave., Duarte.
Interested parties who do not attend the meetings can submit written comments by July 3 to the Hospitals Commission, 313 N. Figueroa St., Los Angeles 90012.
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