County: Troubled South LA hospital should drop trauma services
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LOS ANGELES Los Angeles County supervisors have recommended that a troubled South LA hospital 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 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 Martin Luther King Junior-Drew Medical Center could lose nearly 200 (m) million dollars in funding next month because it failed a federal inspection.
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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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By Springer, Dan Schott, Kate  The Tri-State Ambulance Board said Wednesday it wants La Crosse County to meet two conditions before it will enter mediation on providing emergency medical services in La Crosse.
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LOS ANGELES -- Financial problems caused mainly by the treatment of uninsured patients have forced two emergency rooms to close in Los Angles County, raising concerns that other facilities may be overwhelmed.
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St. Mary's County was once a place where no doctor wanted to settle. In the 1970s, the county hospital used decades-old equipment, struggled to make payroll and had no full-time specialists -- not even an obstetrician, although more than 600 babies were born there each year.
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The District of Columbia&#39;s emergency medical services, which ranked lowest among the nation&#39;s 50 largest cities in a USA TODAY investigation last year, has replaced
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There will be one fewer place for trauma patients to land when San Jose Medical Center closes in December. But Wednesday, county health officials were concerned about a much less dramatic, but more common
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Los Angeles County + USC Medical Center could see fallout from closing of area trauma centers. By Alexa Hyland. The planned opening of a new trauma center at the California Hospital Medical Center in downtown
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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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By Larry Parsons, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Sep. 8--A small subdivision in Carmel Valley, rejected by a Monterey County advisory panel, will be appealed to the county Board of Supervisors.
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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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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 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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LOS ANGELES Members of LA County&#39;s Board of Supervisors are scheduled to vote tomorrow on the fate of the trauma center at Martin Luther King Junior/Drew Medical Center.
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Shrinking budgets and escalating costs this year exacerbated many of the county&#39;s health- care problems, which included the first human case of West Nile virus and the fact that prescription medications are increasingly expensive for many seniors.