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\"Lakeshore<\/a>

Lakeshore Hospital in Irving.<\/p><\/div>\n

IRVING – Congressman Tom Reed<\/strong> is joining state officials in the effort to keep the doors open for Lake Shore Health Care Center<\/strong>, a north county hospital that is scheduled to close early next year.<\/p>\n

In a statement on Friday, Reed said he is keeping up-to-date on the situation and he hopes that a solution can be found that ensures patients have access to the best possible care, as well preserve the more than 400 jobs that would be lost should the hospital close.<\/p>\n

Also on Friday, Senator Cathy Young\u2019s<\/strong> office released a letter that she sent to the state Health Department Commissioner, requesting that sate officials consider several factors before allowing the closing to continue. Those factors include a large senior population as well as severe weather during the winter season.<\/p>\n

In October, Lake Shore officials made the surprising announcement that the hospital was operating at a $7 million deficit and would have to close its doors in early 2014. \u00a0The closure would force residents in the tri-county region to travel a much further distance \u2013 either to Dunkirk, Hamburg or Springville – to receive immediate hospital care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

IRVING – Congressman Tom Reed is joining state officials in the effort to keep the doors open for Lake Shore Health Care Center, a north county hospital that is scheduled to close early next year. In a statement on Friday, Reed said he is keeping up-to-date on the situation and he hopes that a solution […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":7584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Young, Reed Continue Effort to Keep Lakeshore Open","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[358,2910,2263],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/lakeshore1.jpg?fit=332%2C190&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3YlJ4-20q","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7714"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7715,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7714\/revisions\/7715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}