Concerns Arise Over Proposed Trauma Center Closure
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LOS ANGELES -- The proposed closure of the trauma center at Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center is alarming doctors, police, paramedics and some politicians.
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Stanford Medical Center will see a 40 percent increase in trauma patients once San Jose Medical Center closes in December, but the hike will not affect Stanford&#39;s
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Traumatic brain injury cases, the signature wound of the Iraq war, are leaving the military health care system scrambling.
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Amid reports that the facility will be closed, Bush hardliners and pragmatists wrestle over its future
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Concerns raised over senior officers' threat to patient confidentiality.
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Police closed off a hospital here after a shooting was reported inside the building Sunday.
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SALINAS, Calif. -- Central Coast hospitals are trying to figure out where they&#39;re going to send patients with severe trauma after hearing the news that the San Jose Medical Center will be closing soon.
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Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) will introduce legislation seeking to repeal the planned closure of Walter Reed Army Medical Center, saying the problems revealed at the hospital have been exacerbated by the planned closure of the facility.
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Leading doctors ask for an independent inquiry into the quality of care of severely injured patients.
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Hospitals may be closed when patients are given choice, the health secretary says.
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The county Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to close a hospital trauma center in one of the city's poorest, most gang-ridden neighborhoods, despite pleas from politicians, residents and civil rights leaders.
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A downtown Los Angeles hospital announced it would open the county&#39;s first new trauma center in more than a decade, a move that would provide another option for treating severely injured
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Santa Clara County health officials, stunned by the abrupt closure of one of the South Bay&#39;s three trauma hospitals, will recommend cutting off emergency care for people from outside the county by this fall.
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A Virginia Supreme Court commission on mental health laws yesterday proposed loosening the state's standard for when mentally ill people should be committed to hospitals, an issue that has come to the fore since the Virginia Tech shootings last spring.
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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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An ambulance union has concerns over an agreement enabling paramedics to go off-duty during meal breaks.
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Hundreds of people on Monday protested the proposed closure of a public hospital&#39;s trauma unit that serves a wide swath of South Los Angeles and regularly treats victims of gang violence.