El Paso Children’s Hospital

By Aileen Flores El Paso Times Originally published June 17, 2014 University Medical Center is proposing a secret plan to save El Paso Children's Hospital before it is forced to close because of its financial problems. On Tuesday, the UMC Board of Managers sent a letter to children's hospital's Board Chairman Sam Legate stating that the children's hospital is not able to maintain itself financially and it's unable to meet its current obligations to UMC and other providers. "This situation creates an immediate risk that one or more of these service providers may cancel existing agreements and possibly trigger an immediate [...]