RITZVILLE, Wash. — Adams County Public Hospital District commissioners will present their plan to save East Adams Rural Healthcare from closure at a commissioner's meeting tonight.

For 108 workers like Nancy Gutierrez, tonight's 5:30 p.m. meeting at Legion Hall in Ritzville could determine whether they have jobs come January.

"There are 108 employees that are counting they have employment here," Gutierrez, a medical technician at the hospital, said last week. "You know we still have hope."

The hospital owes more than $10 million after three years of alleged financial mismanagement. Missing audits for 2022, 2023, and 2024 kept district commissioners unaware of the mounting debt until recently.

"It's very difficult to bring yourself to believe that professional people that you have been

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