LSU governing board approves deeper budget cuts to university-run hospitals and clinics - MELINDA DESLATTE, Associated Press

The LSU governing board backed a plan Thursday to deepen cuts to $152 million for the university-run public hospitals that care for the poor and uninsured, eliminating dozens of inpatient beds, clinic services and nearly 1,500 jobs. The cuts could threaten access to health care for some uninsured people in the high-poverty state. The reductions, devised with Gov. Bobby Jindal's administration, will fall across seven south Louisiana hospitals, carving out 19 percent of the spending that had been planned for those facilities run through LSU's Health Care Services Division. http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/947ff888fc0e4c7396fc86242faa5156/LA--LSU-Hospitals