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Supervisors Approve New Hospital.

Moving to resolve one of the state's most vexing political battles, the Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to build and operate a 60-bed medical facility in the San Gabriel Valley.

The action is intended to end a protracted impasse between the board majority and powerful state lawmakers

over providing health care for hundreds of thousands of the county's poorest residents. The two sides have been at odds for years over the size of a replacement facility for the Eastside's aging County-USC Medical Center.

The county plans to build a 600-bed hospital. But state lawmakers representing the Eastside and San Gabriel Valley have criticized the project as inadequate, saying a 750-bed center is needed. The latest hospital is a compromise measure intended as a satellite to County-USC.

A number of issues remain to be resolved. Most important is whether the state will provide funds to increase the size of the proposed County-USC center as well as pay for medical services for any additional people who would be hospitalized there.

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