LA county emergency room closures straining health care system
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LOS ANGELES Financial problems have shut down two Los Angeles County emergency rooms for good over the past two weeks -- raising concerns that the county&#39;s remaining E-Rs may be overwhelmed.
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Thousands of Medi-Cal patients in Santa Clara County may not be able to use their local hospital to deliver babies or have non-emergency operations starting Tuesday.
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LOS ANGELES The number of uninsured patients using emergency rooms as their primary care facility has become so huge, it&#39;s put Los Angeles County&#39;s emergency system &quot;on the brink of absolute chaos.
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Most physician-owned specialty hospitals are poorly equipped to handle medical emergencies, federal investigators will report today, underscoring a longstanding concern about the rapid rise in the number of such hospitals.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. Health officials hope to be able to open another trauma center in San Jose to replace one that is due to close next month.
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More than 70 UCLA medical students protested the potential closure of the Martin Luther King/Drew Medical Center&#39;s trauma unit Monday during a hearing held by the LA County Board of Supervisors.
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Emergency rooms at U.S. hospitals are   becoming stretched as patient visits increase while the number   of emergency facilities declines, a new report said.
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LOS ANGELES - A federal judge has allowed the county to continue with its plans to close the trauma center at Martin Luther King Jr.
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LOS ANGELES -- County supervisors recommended Monday that problem-plagued Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center drop its trauma services as part of a &quot;comprehensive rescue plan&quot; to lighten the load in its emergency department.
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The state has an unusually high number of people with no health insurance, doctors are hard to come by and safety nets are eroding.
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Patients are waiting longer for care in the nation's emergency rooms, a potentially deadly result of the shrinking number of emergency departments and rising demand for emergency services, according to a new study by researchers at Harvard Medical School.
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Hospital options for critically injured victims in Monterey County will be fewer with the impending closure of San Jose Medical Center in December.
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Emergency rooms at many hospitals are routinely stretched to the breaking point, raising concerns that they would not be able to handle victims during a terrorist attack or natural disaster, according to congressional testimony yesterday and a new federal study.
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LOS ANGELES - The news that Los Angeles County will be getting a new trauma center didn&#39;t satisfy some South Los Angeles residents.
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LOS ANGELES -- The orthopedic department at the troubled King/Drew Medical Center in South Los Angeles is the latest target of a county investigation.
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The LA County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to close Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center&#39;s trauma unit, dealing a blow to community leaders and other protestors, including UCLA medical students, who fought to keep it open.
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Millions of people with chest pain enter emergency room limbo, spending up to 24 hours waiting for tests to tell if a heart attack really is brewing or if it's something less dire.