County: Troubled South LA hospital should drop trauma services
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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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LOS ANGELES, Aug. 10 -- An iconic local hospital built after the 1965 Watts riots to serve an area made up mostly of African Americans will lose its federal funding next week, officials announced Friday, pushing Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital one step closer to closing for good.
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A Montgomery County hospital where a 29-year-old patient suffered extreme malnutrition before his death could face steep state fines within weeks and even the loss of federal Medicare funding this fall because of serious failings in care.
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Greater Southeast Community Hospital had its national accreditation yanked yesterday because of the overwhelming problems that pushed the District facility close to collapse for much of this year.
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Will cable competition destroy the local emergency alert system in Los Angeles County? We're not willing to find out.
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As real estate values fall, local governments from northern Virginia to Southern California are cutting services, eliminating staff and shelving projects.
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Authorities here say they're still having a horrendous time dealing with the mentally ill, more than two years after Hurricane Katrina washed away a massive mental hospital that has yet to be replaced.
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Abusive A&E patients should lose the right to free treatment, the Lib Dems have suggested.
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NEW ORLEANS, July 3 -- The district attorney has dropped the case against two nurses in the deaths of four patients at a New Orleans hospital after Hurricane Katrina.
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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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By John Simerman, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Jun. 27--SOUTH LAKE TAHOE -- What happened Tuesday was unexpected. Today, they know it could get worse.
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Police closed off a hospital here after a shooting was reported inside the building Sunday.
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LOS ANGELES A troubled South Los Angeles hospital has paid higher medical malpractice costs per patient in recent years than any other public or University of California hospital in the state.
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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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SAN JOSE, Calif. A study on the impact of the planned closing of the San Jose Medical Center is urging the corporation that owns the hospital to delay in shutting down the facility.
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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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LOS ANGELES -- Activists who fought hard to bring a hospital to south-central Los Angeles after the 1965 Watts riots are in mourning since the announcement that their beloved but deeply troubled hospital failed a crucial federal inspection and will lose more than half its funding.