Supervisors Reject Plan to Save Inpatient Services
From Times Staff Reports
County supervisors rejected a plan Tuesday that sought to save inpatient services at the county-run High Desert Hospital by leasing it to a private company.
The county is converting the Lancaster hospital into an ambulatory care clinic to save $10 million a year, part of a larger plan to close a projected $1.1-billion budget shortfall in the county health-care system by the 2007-08 fiscal year.
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