The troubled hospital shuts down:
Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital shut down its emergency room Friday night and will close entirely within two weeks, a startlingly swift reaction to a federal decision to revoke $200 million in annual funding because of ongoing lapses in care.
The surrounding hospitals are put under further pressure, as patients will be redirected. I also wonder what’s going to happen to the house staff there. (via a reader tip)
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If those who don’t have standards don’t get shut down, why have standards? Why all the wailing over fate of those who don’t cut the mustard?
“Why all the wailing over fate of those who don’t cut the mustard?”
Are you referring to the hospital/staff or the patient population?
That place was an absolute cesspool. I’m surprised it wasn’t closed long ago. The fate of the housestaff? Specialty organizations had disaccredited their residencies one by one over the years. There weren’t many left.
People who want Government to run all aspects of healthcare should look at Killer King as an example of what you would get. This along with a population almost entirely dependent on government programs of one sort or another (something we would all be under a complete government run and funded system)for their healthcare. Pretty scary, glad they are gone. Maybee Micheal Moore can organize a boat lift to Cuba of the people who depended on King so they can continue to receive free government healthcare.
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