Chamber pushes for trauma center
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Citing public safety concerns, the San Jose Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors has unanimously voted to urge the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors to act quickly to ensure that the county does not lose one of its three trauma
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LA officials want to add a facility to California Hospital to help handle King-Drew patients. By David Zahniser. County health officials are finalizing an agreement to open a new trauma center in downtown Los Angeles on Dec.
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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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Faced with pressures to deal with a spate of unanticipated natural disasters as well as with the election-year needs of dozens of key constituencies, Congress moved this week
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Group demonstrates possible solutions, but lawmakers also need to act.
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The political battle in Maryland to limit medical malpractice lawsuits is also underway in Virginia and the District, where doctors and hospitals are pressing for greater restrictions on who can sue for a medical mistake and how much can be collected.
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Politicians are pushing an idea to fight high health costs by shielding employers from the most expensive medical cases.
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Construction work on a state-of-the-art emergency unit at a Pembrokeshire hospital underway.
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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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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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Stanford Hospital will expand its trauma center services in its Emergency Department due to the closure of one of the other two trauma centers in Santa Clara County.
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A presidential panel will issue its recommendations this week on how to improve military medical care, five months after reports about the barriers to care faced by those wounded in war first drew national attention.
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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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For Los Angeles and its residents, the debate over closing the trauma center at Martin Luther King/Drew Medical Center was heated, emotional and political.
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Gov. Robert Ehrlich and top legislative leaders emerged from a meeting in the governor&#39;s mansion Thursday, holding out hope of a special legislative session next month to deal with a medical
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Frustrated that Prince George's County leaders have no solution for their hospital system's financial troubles, the county's legislative delegation introduced a bill yesterday that would transfer ownership of the system to a state authority.
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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.