Hospital aid.Hospitals across the state are having a difficult time meeting the requirements of new seismic standards that essentially require them to build new facilities. Not in Covina Covina (kōvē`nə), city (1990 pop. 43,207), Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1901. The area was settled in 1842, citrus crops were introduced in 1886, and the citrus industry reached its peak in the 1930s when Covina was one of the world's . Earlier this month, the City Council voted unanimously to hand Citrus Valley Health Partners $2.2 million to assist it in rebuilding its Covina hospital. The non-profit operator will use the redevelopment funds to draw up initial designs and study possible sites. But the city--which gained a national reputation for tightfistedness tight·fist·ed adj. Close-fisted; stingy. tight  fisted·ness n. 10 years ago when voters ejected the entire city council in a tax revolt--wants some thing in return. The city would like to move the hospital closer to its downtown Downtown (called a "city centre" in British English) is a term used in North America when referring to a city's core, usually both in a geographical and commercial / community sense. onto a smaller parcel, and then use the existing 10-acre pad for medical office buildings or another similar use. Staff reporter Laurence Laurence is the surname or the given name of several people: Surname
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