Sine the closing of Martin Luther King Hospital, things have been a little bit crazy in trying to cover the residents who depended on the hospital. When a 911 call goes out, patients don’t know where they will end up, St. Francis, Kaiser, or Long Beach. Most residents are on Medicaid, in California known as Medical. Budgets are tight and another 10% cut is proposed, and emergency rooms are already over crowded.
There have been more recent hospital closures in the Los Angeles area in the last couple of years and perhaps a private operator might re-open the Martin Luther King facility some day. With many hospitals bordering on insolvency, the additional patient loads are making it difficult to handle as well. The overcrowding of emergency rooms continues in the Los Angeles area and it doesn’t appear to be getting any better any time soon. BD
For thousands of residents of South Los Angeles who had depended on the large county-run King-Harbor hospital, the past 10 months have been a grueling exercise in cobbling together medical care. When King-Harbor was shut by federal officials, it became the 15th general acute care hospital to close in Los Angeles County since 2000, about half of which served residents in South Los Angeles.
A City Where Hospitals Are as Ill as the Patients - NYTimes.com
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