Blue Cross and the hospital sent letters out to patients this month informing them they would have to seek nonemergency hospital care elsewhere if a new contract wasn't reached.
The Madera County hospital -- the only children's hospital between the Bay Area and Los Angeles -- mailed 5,000 letters June 22 to families.
Officials with Children's Hospital Central California and Blue Cross of California agreed to a 30-day contract extension Friday that allows the hospital to continue treating thousands of poor children covered by the HMO while the two sides try to work out a long-term agreement.
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