A California hospital that closed during the summer will not open by Jan. 1 as anticipated, according to the Press-Telegram.
Community Medical Center Long Beach (Calif.), which opened in 1924, closed July 3 due to the inability to retrofit the hospital to meet California's seismic standards. While in August the hospital's new operator said it would reopen Jan. 1, Long Beach's Economic Development Director John Keisler said the hospital won't hit that deadline.
The hospital's operator, Molina, Wu, Network, and Long Beach are negotiating a lease agreement for Community Medical Center Long Beach's property. Talks between the two groups are stuck on who will pay for the seismic retrofitting.
The hospital operator and CEO Virgis Narbutas did not respond to the Press-Telegram's request for comment on the hospital's new reopen date.
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