Published on Monday, May 12, 2008
By Jerry Berrios
SANTA CLARITA - Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital is closing its 27-bed transitional care unit next month despite protests from local senior citizens.
A protest scheduled for today will be the sixth held during the past few years urging hospital officials to keep the facility open.
The unit provides skilled nursing care, often to elderly patients who no longer need acute care but are not ready to return home.
"All of the seniors are in a panic right now and they have been for the past few years," said Dr. Gene Dorio, who helped organize the protest and specializes in geriatrics. "Now the reality is hitting them."
The community knew the unit would eventually close, but earlier this month the hospital's board of directors voted to shut down the unit sooner than expected and use the beds for acute-care patients. The new unit will be called MedSurg5 and is scheduled to open this summer
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