NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana’s health department said Wednesday it will provide $18 million to keep Baton Rouge General Hospital’s Mid-City emergency room open, and hospital officials said they have canceled plans to close the ER on Nov. 1.

The hospital said Tuesday that it would have to shut down the emergency room because it has been getting so many uninsured patients since LSU’s Earl K. Long Medical Center was closed that it was losing $1 million a month.

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