Jefferson Parish citizens are being invited to participatein the lease process for the parish's two public hospitals for the first time with apair of public meetings on either side of the Mississippi River. The first will be on Monday (Dec. 9) at the General Government Building in Gretna; asecond is planned Dec. 17 at the Yenni Building in Elmwood. Both meetingsare scheduled from 6 to 8 p.m. with identical formats.
Officials with Hospital Corp. of America, Louisiana Children's MedicalCenter and Ochsner Health System will each make 10-minute presentations to the ParishCouncil, which will then receive comments from the public, limited to threeminutes per person.