NATIONAL CITY : SOCAL'S SELF PROCLAIMED "ILLEGAL ALIEN SANCTUARY CITY"

National City hospital is facing cutoff of U.S. funds

Two reports say patient care is threatened at Paradise Valley

By Cheryl Clark
STAFF WRITER

November 11, 2006

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The reports stem from two recent inspections of the National City hospital, which serves a largely poor and ethnically diverse community in the South Bay. They come on top of financial losses that prompted Paradise Valley's owner to announce last month that it will sell the nonprofit facility.

Paradise Valley's losses are said to be about $1 million per month.

While the hospital's problems are frightening and inexcusable, several health advocates said, they are not surprising considering that Paradise Valley sees so many uninsured and underinsured patients who are expensive to treat.

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