The Bossier Chamber of Commerce is speaking out against proposed budget cuts to the LSU Health Shreveport School of Medicine. The group is urging members to write to lawmakers asking that they restore $25 million in proposed cuts. Click here to view the email.

The cuts are part of House Bill 1, which goes to the Senate floor this week. If the proposed cuts are approved, officials say the hospital would eventually collapse.

With 6,000 employees, the hospital is Shreveport-Bossier's largest employer and generates about $773 million annually in economic development in the community.

The LSU Health Shreveport School of Medicine treats approximately 400,000 patients a year and produces 70 percent of the doctors who practice medicine in Louisiana.

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Bossier Chamber urges funding for LSU Medical School