LSU will stitch together some patchwork funding to keep its safety net hospitals open and lessen the blow of budget cuts that threatened to shutter facilities, university health care leaders announced Friday in an effort to diminish fears of widespread service closures. Plans outlined to the Louisiana State University Board of Supervisors will cut about $50 million from public hospitals and clinics, rather than the more than $300 million that had been expected, in the budget year that began July 1. LSU's hospitals in Lake Charles and in Tangipahoa Parish — W.O. Moss Regional Medical Center and Lallie Kemp Regional Medical Center — will bear the heaviest cuts.
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