Mayers Memorial Hospital District CEO Matt Rees (Fall River Mills, Calif.)  made a case to health care regulators in Washington, D.C., to stop impending budget cuts that would force him to close the hospital’s birthing center and move 30 infirm and elderly patients far away from loved ones. Rees, along with a delegation from the California Hospital Association, protested pending state cuts to Medi-Cal that would reduce his hospital’s budget by $1.4 million.