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Written by Mike Devich
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Friday, 14 December 2007 |
State’s facilities may delay upgrades. Hospitals will get a reprieve from having to retrofit or rebuild by 2013 after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger approved new rules, according to an L.A. Times story Tuesday. They will now be able to delay siesmic upgrades until at least 2020. Many of the state’s hospitals have been having a tough time complying with a Senate bill passed after the devastating 1994 Northridge earthquake due to their financial difficulties.
The Times quoted Kim Belshe, Schwarzeneg-ger's secretary of health and human services, as saying, “A seismically safe building is no good to anyone if the doors close due to a hospital's financial inability to replace or retrofit that building.”
This topic was discussed briefly during Wednesday’s Kern Valley Hospital board of directors meeting.
New hospital board selected:
Kern Valley Healthcare District’s board of directors approved new positions, including a new chairman, at the Wednesday board meeting after other business was out of the way.
The new chairman of the board will be Bob Jamison, with former chairman Brad Armstrong taking first vice-chair.
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Mike Devich |
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| After a 25-year retail career in Lake Isabella, California, Mike Devich used his early journalism education and went to work for a weekly newspaper in Kernville, rising to managing editor. In November 2007, he and a friend, Michael Batelaan, purchased the Kern River Courier, another weekly based in Wofford Heights. He can be reached at
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