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Article: EMERGENCY ROOM FATE WAITS ON TALKS\Salick to negotiate possible Westlake Medical Center purchase.(NEWS)

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February 18, 1996
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Byline: R.A. Hutchinson Daily News Staff Writer

As negotiations draw near over how much Salick Health Care Inc. might pay for Westlake Medical Center, the fate of the hospital's emergency room hangs in the balance.

Columbia/HCA, the Nashville-based health care giant that acquired Westlake Medical Center in 1995, announced early this year it would close acute-care operations at Westlake Medical and combine them with services at its facility in Thousand Oaks, Los Robles Regional Medical Center.

That announcement also triggered sales talks between Columbia and Salick, a Beverly Hills-based cancer treatment operation that leases space on the ...

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