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County seeks short-term loan and management authority to keep Palo Verde emergency room open
Summary
Riverside County staff presented a plan to loan $1 million and negotiate a management agreement to stabilize the Palo Verde Hospital emergency department for roughly 180 days while a multi‑stakeholder strike force assesses longer‑term operations; the hospital district and Blythe officials praised county involvement.
Riverside County formalized a short‑term effort on Jan. 21 to preserve emergency care in the Palo Verde Valley after the local healthcare district said it could not keep the Palo Verde Hospital fully operational.
Jeff Van Wagonen, the county executive officer, told the Board the hospital district lacked sufficient funds to continue operations and had only about a week of operating cash at one point. The county negotiated a $1,000,000 loan intended to provide roughly three weeks of bridge funding so a county‑led strike force can take steps to stabilize the emergency…
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