MPTF phasing out Woodland Hills hospital

January 14, 2009 Hollywood's iconic retirement community in suburban Los Angeles will close its on-campus hospital by year's end and lay off a third of its staff while boosting its community-based health services. The Motion Picture & Television Fund said Wednesday that it is phasing out an acute-care hospital and long-term care facility at its Wasserman Campus in Woodland Hills to cut operating losses that might otherwise bankrupt the facility. In announcing its hospital phase-out, the Hollywood-supported organization said it would expand community-based services by establishing a network of "community care teams" to coordinate and expand home-based and other medical and social services to entertainment industry retirees.

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