BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Facing another round of budget cuts, Louisiana likely can't afford all of its privatized LSU hospitals and could shutter the safety net facilities except for those in Shreveport and New Orleans, the health department's chief financial officer said Tuesday. Jeff Reynolds, undersecretary for the Department of Health and Hospitals, delivered the grim news to a House budget committee as lawmakers grapple with proposals for how to close a $750 million state budget shortfall for the financial year that begins July 1. "It's going to be ugly," Reynolds said. During a recent special...
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