In an attempt to preserve its only hospital, several Blythe citizens are trying to dissolve that institutions’s five-member governing body and transfer its responsibilities to the Riverside County Board of Supervisors.
That proposal is a response to the Chapter 9 bankruptcy filing in September by the Palo Verde Healthcare District’s board of directors, overseers of Palo Verde Hospital. The board took that action so the hospital could continue providing emergency and outpatient care to Blythe and its surrounding communities.
In the meantime, the board will try to resolve its financial issues so the only hospital in a remote part of Riverside County can remain open permanently…