Hospital Gets OK to Expand Into New Unit
Antelope Valley Hospital Medical Center in Lancaster has received county approval to expand into a new 40-bed medical-surgical unit, raising the valley’s largest hospital’s bed total to 341, officials said.
Licensing of the new unit by Los Angeles County marks the final phase of a seven-year, $36-million expansion program begun in 1984, hospital officials said. The size of the hospital has nearly doubled since 1975.
However, officials said the new beds, on the fifth floor of the hospital’s recently built west tower, may not be needed immediately.
The hospital is a public facility run by an elected board but funded by patient fees and insurance money instead of property taxes.
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