§ 101835 Hospital Authority Financial Obligations

• •Hospital authority is responsible for its own obligations.
• •The county is not on the hook for those obligations.
• •The only exception is when the obligation is owed to the State of California.

A hospital authority signs a contract to buy new medical equipment and later can't pay the supplier.

The hospital authority has to pay the supplier on its own; the county can't be forced to cover the bill. If the hospital authority owed money to the State of California, then the state could collect that debt.