Hospital Stays Open -- With Changes

Erie Shriners Hospital will stay open, but will start billing patients' insurance companies for treatment. The hospital is also in talks with Hamot Medical Center, and other health care providers to lease space in its building.

This week, Shriners International voted to allow the Erie hospital and five others to remain open.

They had considered closing the hospitals because of financial problems. The endowment fund used to cover the hospitals' cost has shrunk from $8.5 billion to $5 billion since early 2008.

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