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Billionaire offers $100M to re-open troubled Los Angeles hospital
A billionaire who made his fortune in the pharmaceutical industry has stepped up with a $100 million guarantee dedicated to helping the University of California re-open the city's Martin Luther King... Read more...
FL medical center expects operating losses to double; Two TN hospitals agree to pay $7.9 million for overbilling Medicare;
> Miami Beach's Mount Sinai Medical Center is telling investors that it expects its operating losses to double this year, and go up even more next year. Article > Two West Tennessee hospitals... Read more...
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...
ALSO NOTED: Hospitals working to avoid needless ED care; FDA may soon require epilepsy drug labeling; and much more...
> Hoping to avoid further bad debt, hospitals are setting systems in place to avoid providing non-emergency ED care. 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...
