Heart Hospital to Close Its Emergency Room
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From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Residents here will lose one of five emergency rooms Friday.
The 2-year-old Bakersfield Heart Hospital can’t survive without cutting its emergency room, which is losing as much as $500,000 a month, Chief Executive Randy Rolfe said.
The hospital, which receives about 25 to 30 patients daily, blames the losses on the failure of insurance company PacifiCare to pay patient claims. The hospital has filed suit against PacifiCare, which denies it is the problem. Trial is scheduled for June 3.
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