VENTURA HOSPITALS END FEUD; FORM AGREEMENT FOR FACILITY.Byline: Bhavna Mistry Staff Writer VENTURA - Ventura County Medical Center Ventura County Medical Center is a hospital in the city of Ventura, California, USA. It is a 208 bed acute care hospital. The county also operates a 49 bed campus in Santa Paula. and Community Memorial Hospital formed an agreement Wednesday that could signal a truce in the long-standing rivalry between the neighboring neigh·bor n. 1. One who lives near or next to another. 2. A person, place, or thing adjacent to or located near another. 3. A fellow human. 4. Used as a form of familiar address. v. medical facilities. The agreement calls for Community Memorial not to fight construction of a needed county medical lab in exchange for the county's pledge it will not use the new facility to recruit additional patients. ``It think this is the end of the war,'' said Supervisor Steve Bennett The name Steve Bennett refers to more than one person:
Two months in the making, the agreement will be forwarded to the Ventura County Board of Supervisors The examples and perspective in this article or section may represent an unduly geographically limited view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. The Board of Supervisors is the body governing counties in the U.S. during Tuesday's regular meeting. ``I feel that a very appropriate and meaningful agreement developed,'' said CMH's Executive Director Michael Bakst. ``We're very gratified grat·i·fy tr.v. grat·i·fied, grat·i·fy·ing, grat·i·fies 1. To please or satisfy: His achievement gratified his father. See Synonyms at please. 2. that we had an opportunity to air our differences.'' The county and the private hospital have clashed for years, competing for patients while faced with the high cost of running hospitals due to modernization expenses and decreased funding from HMOs and other sources. Last year, CMH CMH Center of Military History CMH Commission on Macroeconomics and Health CMH Chief of Military History CMH Children's Memorial Hospital CMH Ceramic Metal Halide (General Electric light source) CMH Congressional Medal of Honor waged a heated campaign to shift control of the county's $250 million tobacco settlement money to the region's private hospitals - a proposal defeated by voters at the polls in November. The agreement reached Wednesday stems from the county's need to build a new medical lab, cafeteria and kitchen building for its hospital. The county could lose its laboratory certification without a new facility. Community Memorial Hospital had twice blocked the county's expansion plans, Bennett said. In 1996, CMH convinced voters to approve a measure that blocked expansion of the county medical center. |
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