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Mar 10 9:52 am
  • Community Hospital

City seeks to extend winter homeless shelter at Community Hospital through April

Jason Ruiz

The cold-weather shelter has been consistently full since it opened. The city wants to avoid pushing people back onto the streets while it looks for more permanent housing.

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Jan 6 1:20 pm
  • homelessness

Winter homeless shelter turns off water, brings in port-a-potties after plumbing problems

Jeremiah Dobruck

“It’s really rough up here,” said one shelter resident, who described having to take a shuttle to a completely different facility if she wants a shower.

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Dec 19 4:27 pm
  • Community Hospital

Long Beach winter shelter officially opens at Community Hospital

Jason Ruiz

The winter shelter will operate at Community Hospital in Long Beach through March 31.

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Dec 15 9:53 am
  • Community Hospital

Work to convert Community Hospital into a wellness campus continues, owner says

Brandon Richardson

Construction on the wellness campus is expected to begin late next year and focus on bringing the aging facility up to modern accessibility and safety standards.

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Sep 27 4:53 pm
  • Community Hospital

City leaders to consider sale of Community Hospital; plans for wellness center move forward

Brandon Richardson

After years of trying and failing to keep the East Long Beach facility open, the City Council will vote on whether to sell the property for $0 to operator MWN Community Hospital LLC in order to satisfy the requirements of a risky lease deal that required the city to cover operational losses.

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Jun 7 8:58 am
  • Community Hospital

State says Community Hospital property exempt from affordable housing law

Kelly Puente

The law, called the Surplus Land Act, was a major hurdle in the city’s plan to pay back significant losses to the hospital’s operator, Molina Wu Network, by transferring ownership of the 8.7-acre property in East Long Beach.

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May 2 1:39 pm
  • Community Hospital

To save Community Hospital, Long Beach leaders took a risky gamble—and lost

Kelly Puente and Brandon Richardson

City officials put Long Beach on the hook for millions of dollars in losses amassed by Community Hospital’s new operator. Now the bill is due.

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Apr 26 12:07 pm
  • Community Hospital

Community Hospital property must be offered to affordable housing developers, state says

Brandon Richardson

A 2019 law has thrown into jeopardy a proposed plan for the city to hand over the now-closed hospital to its operator for a mental health and wellness campus.

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Jan 24 2022 6:10 pm
  • Community Hospital

Community Hospital likely to be sold as city seeks to pay operator millions in losses

Brandon Richardson and Jason Ruiz

The operator plans to operate Community as a mental wellness campus and is exploring the possibility of adding housing to the site.

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Nov 16 2021 6:00 pm
  • Community Hospital

Community Hospital ER to partially close Wednesday morning

Brandon Richardson

As of Wednesday morning, the emergency department will no longer accept ambulance dispatches. The department will fully, permanently close one week later.

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