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NEWS & LETTERS, March-April 2005King-Drew still open
Los Angeles--Community organizing for a full medical
center at King-Drew continues. The recommendations of Navigant, a private
turnaround corporation, are being implemented. That includes top-down, highly
business-oriented reorganizing of a controlling board, with no real voice for
the working staff or the community. They have not publicized how many of the
staff will lose their jobs on the pretense of "incompetence," or when
the suspended trauma center will reopen. The staff in the psychiatric department recently passed
a test on non-violent methods of handling rebellious patients without resorting
to brute force. In a past incident the department had called police and used a
Taser stun gun to subdue a patient. Representatives of Medicare and Medicaid
acknowledged satisfaction, which means that the $200 million annual federal
subsidy will not be halted. This keeps the hospital open for now. --Basho |
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