LSU hospitals in north La. set for privatization

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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The LSU Board of Supervisors agreed Wednesday to negotiate turning over the operations of university-run hospitals in Shreveport and Monroe to a nonprofit research foundation whose interim president sits on the LSU board.

The board backed an arrangement that LSU officials expect to lead to the Biomedical Research Foundation of Northwest Louisiana taking over management of the LSU Health Sciences Center in Shreveport and E.A. Conway Medical Center in Monroe and their clinics.

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