Board Asked to Delay Closing of 2 Hospitals
From Staff and Wire Reports
The county Department of Health Services wants the Board of Supervisors to delay until January a decision on whether to close two of the county’s four full-service hospitals.
In a memo Tuesday, the department cited the passage of Measure B, which will raise property taxes and garner about $168 million for trauma and emergency care. The supervisors will vote Tuesday on turning Harbor-UCLA Medical Center and Olive View-UCLA Medical Center into outpatient clinics.
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