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Last spring, Palo Verde Hospital in Blyight was on the verge of closing after a series of financial accidents left him to bleed money.
In May, the hospital announced that it would not accept new patients “for the foreseeable future”, although his emergency ward and the clinic remained open, Record Riverside Record announces.
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But the emergency state funding announced this summer will help the village hospital remain open, according to the state senator Steve Padila, a Democrat from San Diego, whose area includes parts of the internal empire.
“In a time (when) our rural hospitals are facing financial difficulties and potential closure, it is extremely important for the state to be included to ensure that all Californians have access to life -saving care,” ” Padila said in a statementS “These hospitals are often the only source of healthcare in the whole community. Palo Verde Hospital is the only acute care facility within 100 miles, approximately two hours by car-firmly in the event of an emergency.”
As the hospital in Palo Verde had stopped that in May, Rep. Raul Ruiz, a democrat of the desert, called on Gavr Gavin News to allocate $ 4 million in the state budget to keep the hospital in Palo Verde in sailing, The Desert Sun has been reportedS
He called the occurrence of a closure of an emergency in the field of public health, which “puts a life at risk and will leave a massive difference in healthcare in one of the most unnamed regions of our country.”
State agencies intervened, but did not provide as much as Ruiz wanted. The State Department of Health Services has accelerated $ 560,000 in Medi-Cal payments to Palo Verde Hospital to support hospital operations and protect community care, “said the California Health and Human Services Agency in Calmatters in an email.
Last year, access and information to the Ministry of Health awarded the facility $ 8.5 million through the difficult -to -date hospital loan program, but there is no more funding through this program. As the recipient of this assistance, the hospital had to present a reversal plan that details how it would use these funds to remain a solvent in the long run.
The hospital will also receive an extension of repayment of state loans, which will allow him to invest this money for patient care instead of maintenance of debt, the Padila cabinet told Calmatters.
The El Centro Regional Medical Center at Imperial County, another desert facility at Dire Financial Straits, received $ 28 million through the difficult -year hospital loan program last year, and recently received debt relief on this loan, civil servants said. In July Calexico Chronicle reports.
Palo Verde Hospital serves 18 317 residents of Blythe, 2600 prisoners at Ironwood State Prison and thousands more in the region, Ruiz requested in a letter to NewsomS Without it, the closest medical attention would be about two hours at the JFK Memorial Hospital at the Indio Medical Center and Colorado River in Needles.
Ruiz said the hospital faced a cascade of problems, including court disputes, replaced the operating system and a cyber-attack, which left the hospital with a negative cash flow of about $ 1 million a month.
The closure of the State Prison in the Chuckhawal Valley in 2024 led to a decrease in the city’s population, and the low rates of recovery of Medi-Cal and insurance also led to the financial crisis of the hospital, according to Riverside’s records.
He is not alone. Rural hospitals in California have always worked on a thin margin and several are on the edge of the closure this year, Capitol & Main reports In June, adding that “the rural health system in California has been financially uncertain for years.”
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