title: Community concerns stall hospital closure.
abstract: Closing Leland Memorial Hospital, Riverdale, MD, would end the financial problems that the 120-bed facility faces. But a coalition of local government officials, physicians, and community leaders is successfully using the not-for-profit mission of the system that owns the hospital and its tax-exempt status as weapons to keep the hospital open.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Johnsson
mesh_terms: D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D006268:Health Facilities / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006271:Health Facility Closure / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006744:Hospital Bed Capacity, 100 to 299; D008396:Maryland