Alameda County supervisors approved hiring a consultant Tuesday to examine the county's financially strapped public hospital system after agreeing last week to give the system a break in paying off its $162 million debt. The Alameda Health System, a five-hospital public consortium, will get its finances and operations reviewed by Concord-based Toyon Associates Inc. The move is the latest push from the Alameda County Board of Supervisors for more control and oversight over the semiautonomous hospital system that is in financial trouble and unable to pay down its long-term debt to the county.
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