CHECKING PULSE OF RESIDENTS; CONSULTANTS STUDYING A.V. HEALTH-CARE NEEDS.Byline: Karen Maeshiro Daily News Staff Writer As part of a $45,000 study commissioned by Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley Hospital, consultants will meet this week with residents and officials to determine future health-care needs for the southern Antelope Valley. The five will help determine whether Antelope Valley Hospital can do anything to expand medical services in the region, particularly since Palmdale's only hospital - Desert Palms Community Hospital - closed in March 1996. ``We hired a consultant to ascertain health-care needs and, from that, find out what we can do,'' said hospital spokesman Gary Cothran. Since Desert Palms closed, Palmdale residents now have to travel to Lancaster Community Hospital This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. , run by the same company as Desert Palms; Antelope Valley Hospital, a publicly owned Publicly owned can refer to:
The Antelope Valley Hospital district board voted in May to pay $45,000 for the Chancellor Group of San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden to conduct the study and issue a report, expected to be completed in December. The focus groups will be held with residents from Palmdale, and the unincorporated Adj. 1. unincorporated - not organized and maintained as a legal corporation unorganised, unorganized - not having or belonging to a structured whole; "unorganized territories lack a formal government" communities of Acton, Lake Los Angeles, Littlerock and Pearblossom. The consultant also will meet with Palmdale community leaders, such as council members, school trustees, chamber officials and representatives from Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich's office, Cothran said. About 10 to 15 people will be in each focus group. The people invited either were recommended by hospital board members or were former patients of Antelope Valley Hospital. The study will consider whether another hospital should be built, but officials in the past have said that would be prohibitive pro·hib·i·tive also pro·hib·i·to·ry adj. 1. Prohibiting; forbidding: took prohibitive measures. 2. . The board, when approving the hiring of the Chancellor Group, wanted the consultant to come back with recommendations with specific costs attached, Cothran said. The consultant already has interviewed local health-care officials, including officials at High Desert Hospital, Antelope Valley Hospital staffers and hospital board members. A year after the Desert Palms closing, both Lancaster Community and Antelope Valley hospitals said they were experiencing an increase in the number of people seen in their emergency rooms. Both hospitals have announced plans to expand them. And in September, Antelope Valley Hospital, the county and the city of Palmdale announced an agreement to open a clinic offering basic medical care. The 4,600-square-foot facility at 1529 E. Palmdale Blvd. will provide medical care on an appointment and walk-in walk-in A new brokerage customer who simply walks into the office. Although walk-ins are generally assigned to brokers, they have the right to specify a preferred broker. basis five days a week from noon to 9 p.m. The hours will expand as funding increases. The clinic is scheduled to open in early December. |
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