Board explores ways to reopen California hospital

Madera (Calif.) Community Hospital closed in December, but hospital board members are still meeting two to three times a week in an attempt to find ways to resume service, ABC affiliate KFSN reported Feb. 10.

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In January, the hospital filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy to protect its assets, according to KFSN. However, the board said it will initiate the bankruptcy process only as a last resort.

“We need to get medical reimbursement rates up. We’re not being paid what it costs us to take care of a patient,” Deidre DaSilva, chair of the hospital’s board of trustees, told KFSN.

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