Re: "Fallbrook Healthcare District seeks to financially assist hospital" [Village News, 3/6/14]

Fallbrook Hospital and the Fallbrook Healthcare District (FHD) are negotiating temporary financial assistance for the hospital.

Healthcare district funds come from property taxes and would be offered to the for-profit Fallbrook Hosptial (CHS) in return for some downstream lease advantage to FHD.

Fallbrook Hospital claims it lost $2 million in the first six months of 2013; these numbers are presumably enumerated in an un-circulated FHD consultant’s report used for the basis of the FHD assistance.

Fallbrook Hospital is one of 206 affiliated hospitals of Community Health Systems (CHS), a Tennesse...