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Article: Loma Linda Medical Supplies store closing its doors
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- Redlands Daily Facts
- Article date:
- September 2, 2004
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LOMA LINDA Loma Linda Medical Supplies will close its doors for
the last time Friday.
The store, a Loma Linda mainstay for the past two decades, has had
its challenges over the past year.
"Our goal was to at least break even and we were unable to do
that," said W. Augustus Cheatham, vice president for public affairs
for Loma Linda University Adventist Health Sciences Center. "We were
having substantial losses every month and had been for over a year."
The payments for the large number of clients the store served from
state programs were inadequate to cover cost of equipment, facility
and staffing, he said.
The state funded Medi-Cal enacted a change at the beginning of
year, reducing ...