By Gary Grado | Arizona Capitol Times
The county’s hospital system for indigent patients has defaulted on a 10-year-old, $15.4 million loan from Maricopa County.
Maricopa County gave Maricopa Integrated Health System the loan in 2005 as seed money for the voter-approved health system, which was established as a separate government body to relieve the county of the financial burden of running Maricopa Medical Center at 26th and Roosevelt streets.
The hospital was losing $15 million a year for a decade before the creation of the special hospital district.