Galveston County Daily News, Dec. 3, 2007 A group of area counties and hospital districts is deep into the process of renegotiating its indigent-care contract with UTMB. Officials at the medical branch didn't want to discuss the negotiations while they were still going on. They said last week that they hoped a deal would be complete by mid-December. But they also said the talks could fail. The article quotes Marsha Canright, UTMB director of media relations.