Clayton County’s only hospital may need to ask for federal help or call for layoffs to keep its doors open. Southern Regional Medical Center in Riverdale south of Atlanta will not get help from the county—commissioners last night rejected a 40-million dollar bond request. Without help, hospital officials likely will have to write to check to creditors by the end of the month. Southern Regional’s president and CEO says the hospital costs 20-million dollars a month to operate. Officials say the 331-bed hospital ended fiscal year 2008 with a 7-million dollar loss.
