No Peace at King Medical Center.

KING DREW PROBLEMS CONTINUES....

For those of you following the King Medical Center tragedy in which a woman was denied medical care and died at the hospital. Here are a bunch of articles written by the L.A. Times that basically shows that hospital should and needs to be closed.
Recently so called black activists, with their hearts in the right place is demanding that the hospital remain open despite a long history of being inept and quite frankly, a dangerous problem for the very community they are supposed to support. These same activists are demanding and insinuating that one of the reasons for the ineptness of the medical center is funding...Unfortunately, that excuse won't fly and county supervisors should honor that request and let them see the millions upon millions of dollars poured into that hospital. This very hospital was receiving a helluva lot more funding than neighboring UCLA-Harbor and USC.
On a personal note, once again this shows how wrong, regardless of where their heart lays, these community activists are. And I'm surprised that Earl Ofari Hutchinson is supporting that this hospital remains open. Next, one of the county supervisors, who changed her vote from closing to keeping the hospital open, is all of sudden quiet and haven't been seen. Maxine Waters who supported the hospital remaining open is quiet, last checked, the immigration bill hasn't reached congress yet and this problem is in her district. And lastly, this proves yet again, that any type of gov't involvement regardless if it city, county, state and federal is useless.



Problems at King - Drew:
1. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-kingdrew22nov22,0,2589305.story?page=1

2. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-kingdrew17nov17,0,5862843,full.story

Five Part Series by the L.A. Times:

Part One - Deadly errors and Politics Betray a Hospital's Promise, 12/5/04
1. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/kingdrew/la-me-kdday1dec05,0,5281026.story?coll=la-headlines-california

Part two - Underfunding is a myth, but the squandering is real, 12/6/04
2. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/kingdrew/la-me-kdday2dec06,0,5739780.story?coll=la-headlines-california

Part three - One doctor's trial of dangerous mistakes, 12/7/04
3. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/kingdrew/la-me-kdday3dec07,0,6198534.story?coll=la-headlines-california

Part four - How whole departments fail a hospital's patients, 12/8/04
4. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/kingdrew/la-me-kdday4dec07,0,6591751.story?coll=la-headlines-california

Part Five - Why Supervisor's let deadly problems slide
5. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/kingdrew/la-me-kdday5dec09,0,7116042.story?coll=la-headlines-california