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Problem employees still on King-Harbor payroll

After years of care problems--and the wrenching death of a woman who died, ignored, on the hospital's waiting room floor--Los Angeles-based Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital was forced to close. Read more...

Los Angeles neighborhood suffers for lack of medical care

When a hospital serving the poor closes, big ripple effects happen. When Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital was shut down because of egregious problems with care it delivered, it may have been Read more...

CMS: Harbor-UCLA places patients in jeopardy

Another Los Angeles county hospital emergency department appears to be facing serious care problems, in an unfortunate echo the problems faced the now-deceased Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor hospital. Read more...

Patient dumping tale is all too familiar

Even from 3,000 miles away, it's terribly depressing to read about yet another case of patient dumping by an LA hospital. This time, a Los Angeles-area hospital allegedly left a paraplegic man on Read more...

Family of deceased King-Harbor patient sues for $45M

The family of a woman who died on the waiting room floor of now-defunct Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital is suing the county that operated the facility for $45 million. Family members of Read more...

ALSO NOTED: Walgreens expanding retail clinics in FL; Dayton hospitals align; and much more...

> Walgreens will open 14 retail clinics in South Florida by early December, and it expects to roll out 400 more nationwide in 2008. Read more...

CA offers funds to hospitals hit by King-Drew closure

When troubled Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital closed this August, patients in south Los Angeles were dispersed to hospitals across the region. Because King-Drew served a poor neighborhood, Read more...

Many Los Angeles hospitals in financial trouble

Apparently, a frightening percentage of hospitals in the Los Angeles metro are fighting for their lives. According to a new analysis, almost two dozen hospitals in the area are in the red and could Read more...

SPOTLIGHT: Death of King/Drew stuns community

Without a doubt, there were far too many incidents where patients didn't get the care they needed at Martin Luther King Jr./Harbor Hospital. Still, most of the residents of the poor communities Read more...

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