FEELING READY PALMDALE CLINIC NEAR COMPLETION.Byline: Karen Karen Any member of a variety of tribal peoples of southern Myanmar (Burma). Constituting the second largest minority in Myanmar, the Karen are not a unitary group in any ethnic sense, as they differ among themselves linguistically, religiously, and economically. Maeshiro Staff Writer PALMDALE Palmdale, city (1990 pop. 68,842), Los Angeles co., S Calif., in the irrigated Antelope Valley; a growing residential suburb of Los Angeles near Little Rock Creek where it forms Lake Palmdale Reservoir, inc. 1962. - 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's Palmdale clinic is expected to be ready to open next month, but urgent care services probably won't start until early next year, officials said Friday. Two physician groups are interested in providing ``emergent'' care services at the clinic and have to submit bids to the county, a process that will probably take at least until November or December to complete. ``Both are qualified groups. We are really excited about that, that we do have some competition, which always improves product. We have two groups that we have high confidence in,'' hospital Director Gary Hill Gary Hill (born in 1951, Santa Monica, California, U.S.) is an American artist who lives and works in Seattle, Washington. One of the pioneers of video art, Gary Hill has exhibited his video and video installations worldwide (Artfacts 2007). said. One group of doctors provides emergency room services at Antelope Valley Hospital, and the other is a group that is contracted to provide physician and urgent care services at the Kaiser clinic in Lancaster. The county has to send out for requests for proposals because more than one group is interested in bidding, Hill said. The $5.8 million clinic at 40th Street East and Palmdale Boulevard is a joint effort by Antelope Valley Hospital, Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County and the city of Palmdale. The 29,000-square-foot, two-story clinic originally was supposed to open last September, but that date has been postponed several times because of delays in getting modular buildings Modular buildings are sectional prefabricated buildings that are manufactured in a plant, and delivered to the customer in one or more complete modular sections. Modular buildings are considerably different from mobile homes. and the delivery of the building's elevator elevator, in machinery elevator, in machinery, device for transporting people or goods from one level to another. The term is applied to the enclosed structures as well as the open platforms used to provide vertical transportation in buildings, large ships, , officials said. The clinic has been billed as the beginning of a three-phase plan to build a hospital in Palmdale. It will offer primary care and ``emergent'' care services - an around-the-clock facility staffed by emergency room physicians seven days a week. If patients need to be admitted, they will be transported to Antelope Valley Hospital in Lancaster once they are stabilized sta·bi·lize v. sta·bi·lized, sta·bi·liz·ing, sta·bi·liz·es v.tr. 1. To make stable or steadfast. 2. . Life-threatening situations will still be handled at Antelope Valley Hospital after patients are evaluated in the field by emergency personnel. In May, Antelope Valley Hospital officials announced plans to form a partnership with local physicians to move forward with building a hospital in Palmdale. Hospital officials toured the Palmdale clinic Friday. ``It feels great, walking through there today and seeing the progress,'' Hill said. ``The expansion of medical care into southeast Antelope Valley is really something that we are very excited about.'' Once construction is completed, programs and services currently located at another clinic operated jointly by the hospital and the county at 15th Street East and Palmdale Boulevard will be moved in through the month of August, Hill said. The clinic hours will be expanded to seven days a week, 12 hours a day, Hill said. The hospital didn't renew its lease on the 15th Street East site and is paying a month-to-month month-to-month adj. referring to a tenancy in which the tenant pays monthly rent and has no lease, and the tenancy can be terminated by the landlord at any time on thirty-days notice. (See: tenancy, landlord and tenant) rental fee, officials said. Palmdale lost its only hospital in March 1996, when Desert Palms Community Hospital closed. Since then, hospital officials and Palmdale city officials have been looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. a way to provide medical services to residents in south Antelope Valley. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color) Antelope Valley Hospital's Palmdale clinic is scheduled to open next month, with urgent care services likely to start early next year. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer |
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