Thursday, June 20, 2013

7.30.12 LSU on Friday was able to identify dollars within the public hospital system that would offset a large portion of anticipated funding cuts.

The long-awaited report on how LSU would balance a loss that could reach nearly $330 million from its budget without closing public hospitals was submitted Friday to the LSU Board of Supervisors.

No hospitals will be closed but some services will be curtailed.

Physicians will take less money, purchases will be delayed and hospitals will divert existing state funds to match federal health care dollars that will help mitigate the cuts that are needed, according to the plan.

The reductions include the closure of an operating room in the Earl K. Long Medical Center on Airline Highway in Baton Rouge and half the operating rooms at the Leonard J. Chabert Medical Center in Houma. The University Medical Center at Lafayette will reduce the radiology maintenance and physician contracts, according to the plan.
 
Read the full story at The Advocate.
 

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