FHD pays CHS $711,000 to keep core hospital services until Nov. 17

The Fallbrook Healthcare District board of directors executed a continuation agreement Sept. 12 with Community Health Systems (CHS/Fallbrook Hospital Corporation) to pay the for-profit company $711,000 to guarantee core services (excluding obstetrics) are kept open at Fallbrook Hospital until Nov. 17.

The board had tabled executing the agreement at it’s Sept. 10 regular meeting saying “the agreement language had not received final approval from Fallbrook Hospital Corporation and its affiliates in time for the meeting.”

According to Fallbrook Healthcare District administrator Vi Dupre, “The app...