State lawmakers have long voiced concerns over the financial sustainability of the planned University Medical Center. A report by the Illinois-based consulting firm Kaufman Hall & Associates said the 424-bed teaching hospital would cost the state from $70 million to more than $100 million in subsidies each year, according to a previous Becker’s Hospital Review news report.
Gov. Bobby Jindal’s administration said the committee’s move, if fully passed through the full legislature, would not push back plans for hospital construction.
Read the news report about Louisiana’s University Medical Center.
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