LA County to Close Troubled Trauma Unit
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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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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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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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St. Joseph&#39;s Regional Health Care will eliminate a 24-bed mental health ward at the former London psychiatric hospital, its management at odds yesterday with workers over whether the reduction will harm the mentally ill.
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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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By Michael Lafleur, The Sun, Lowell, Mass.  May 28--LOWELL -- Notre Dame de Lourdes Catholic Church closed after a tearful Mass on Sept. 26, 2004, closing the book on the parish's 98-year history.
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LOS ANGELES -- A downtown 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 patients if the trauma unit is closed at the troubled Martin
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A group trying to prevent closure of the trauma center at an inner-city medical center filed a discrimination lawsuit, alleging the county is trying to dismantle the troubled hospital.
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A hospital has closed its neonatal and pediatrics intensive care units to new admissions after a potentially fatal bacterium sickened seven children, including an infant who may have died from the infection, officials said Friday.
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A report from the CDC says U.S. emergency units are overcrowded, understaffed and turning away trauma patients.  In Bodyhack.
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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 A civil rights debate is surrounding the proposed closure of a trauma unit at a troubled Los Angeles County public hospital.
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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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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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LOS ANGELES  Overcrowding and staff shortages at Los Angeles County jails is forcing some incoming inmates with medical problems to sleep on floors while waiting to be transferred to cellblocks.
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When three bullets ripped into Jose Vasquez's back and leg during a gang shooting in Compton, paramedics rushed him to a sadly familiar place: the trauma unit at the Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center.
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LOS ANGELES -- County supervisors Monday announced what they called a &quot;comprehensive rescue plan&quot; for King/Drew Medical Center, including phasing out its trauma designation to lighten the load in the emergency department.