Lifelong Medical Care is an urgent care facility and will provide care for patients with non-life threatening injuries. However, the community will have no emergency room after the hospital closes, according to the report.
Medicare and Medi-Cal patients will be accepted at the urgent care facility and patients with no insurance will be billed based on what they can afford, according to the report.
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