HealthExecWire

In the decades immediately after World War Two, the creation of public healthcare districts in California provided a framework for a burgeoning system of community and rural hospitals.

Some eight decades after they created a badly needed funding mechanism for hospital construction and maintenance, the purpose of those districts is being questioned. About 40% of the state’s districts no longer manage a hospital, creating concerns about how their levies are being used to serve the community. And controversies have arisen among those with active hospitals about whether they are being properly managed, either by the district, its publicly elected trustees, or private operators that have long-term facility leases.

Join Michael A. Dowell, partner in the law firm of Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP, Walter Kopp, president of Medical Management Services, Inc. and Cleo Burtley, manager with The Camden Group on May 24, 2012 at 10 a.m. Pacific as they explore the future of California’s healthcare districts in this dynamic webinar event: Hospital Districts: Mapping The Future.

Participants will be able to:

Have a clearer understanding of how healthcare/hospital districts in California operate
Be better informed of the challenges facing healthcare/hospital districts in California
Be better informed of some of the controversies surrounding healthcare/hospital districts in California
Have new goals for healthcare/hospital district management moving forward