The head of the financially troubled Waterbury Hospital said Friday that the organization was reserving all its options, including layoffs, to keep its doors open after Tenet Healthcare Corp. walked away from its deal to buy the hospital. Darlene Stromstad, the hospital's president and chief executive, said that all costs will be tightly scrutinized and that discretional spending will be zeroed out. The hospital will continue to defer needed capital expenses and also consider curtailing the hours of its outpatient practices. And layoffs, too, are on the table, but "not before Christmas," Stromstad said in an interview Friday.
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