Local L.A. officials still trying to raise what should be dead
on June 27th, 2007 at 2:48 am(LATimes.com) Los Angeles County supervisors today backed off threats to temporarily shut Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital, opting instead to give the beleaguered facility a reprieve as it prepares for a last-chance government inspection next month.
The Board of Supervisors rejected a motion to start the process of closing the facility after its top health care officials warned that such a move could trigger a stampede of departing employees that would in turn undermine efforts to pass the federal survey.
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“Good prudent management and planning is to begin the process now,” Antonovich said. “We need to have acted yesterday and we didn’t. That procrastination has resulted in substandard care and we ought to be responsible by acting today.”
But after an impassioned debate, supervisors unanimously voted for a compromise. Rejecting a closure, they asked the county’s Department of Health Services to begin negotiating with other local hospitals to take King-Harbor patients should state or federal regulators force the facility to shutter. The state announced last week it had moved to revoke the hospital’s license. (more…)
Earl Ofari Hutchinson has been on local radio for the past few days talking about how by closing the hospital, many folks will not be able to get the health care they need.
WHHHHHHAAAAAAAATTT!
His concern is that the other surrounding hospitals will become flooded with folks who would normally go to King-Harbor–nevermind the years of bad service these poor souls were getting.
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