Petersburg Pilot -

Total expenses exceeded total operating revenue at Petersburg Medical Center for the month of October by $582,842, according to PMC Controller Rocio Tejera.

The hospital had expected total operating revenue to reach $1,620,228 in October, but it only brought in $1,384,880. Expenses on the other hand saw an increase of 22.9 percent. PMC spent $1,967,772 in October but had budgeted for $1,600,937.

Tejera said the reason for the discrepancy between expenses and total operating income comes from the cost of paying PMC employees to take test samples from incoming passengers at Petersburg Airport to...