New trauma unit could absorb patients from troubled King/Drew
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LOS ANGELES -- A downtown hospital announced it would open the county&#39;s first new trauma center in more than a decade, a move that would provide another option for treating severely injured patients if the trauma unit is closed at the troubled Martin
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A customer who balked at making way for several Boston College football players in a sports bar near North Station lay in a hospital bed yesterday, after suffering spinal injuries as a result of an altercation with a BC star and an off-duty Massachusetts State Police sergeant who is a part-owner of the establishment, according to police and participants in ...
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Critics bemoaning the probable closure of the trauma center at Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center seem to be missing an important point: The hospital is killing people.
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Doctors and nurses say mobile casualty units set up to deal with drunk and injured revellers are a success.
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LOS ANGELES - The news that Los Angeles County will be getting a new trauma center didn&#39;t satisfy some South Los Angeles residents.
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More than 70 UCLA medical students protested the potential closure of the Martin Luther King/Drew Medical Center&#39;s trauma unit Monday during a hearing held by the LA County Board of Supervisors.
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Volunteer doctors who treat patients at the state Capitol will face increased scrutiny after it was learned a registered sex offender was twice honored as a "doctor of the day," officials said Friday.
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There will be one fewer place for trauma patients to land when San Jose Medical Center closes in December. But Wednesday, county health officials were concerned about a much less dramatic, but more common
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Work will begin this month on a new, 292-bed St. Elizabeths Hospital building in Anacostia, just south of the historic terra cotta buildings that now house the mental health facility.
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Hospital emergency departments across the United States, already struggling with overcrowding and growing patient loads, are increasingly unable to find specialists to help treat seriously injured and ill patients, according to medical experts.
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An innovative navigation system uses optical signals from hospital lights to guide patients with traumatic brain injuries around hospitals.
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New ventilation units blast curtains of purified air between patients and nurses in Washington Hospital Center's emergency room. Outside, yellow tarpaulins and water taps can decontaminate people on the sidewalk.
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LOS ANGELES - A federal judge has allowed the county to continue with its plans to close the trauma center at Martin Luther King Jr.
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California&#39;s trauma-care system lurches from crisis to crisis with patchwork funding and needs statewide planning and a permanent place in the budget if it is to survive, experts told a joint state hearing Tuesday.
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LOS ANGELES -- Financial problems caused mainly by the treatment of uninsured patients have forced two emergency rooms to close in Los Angles County, raising concerns that other facilities may be overwhelmed.
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Every day for weeks on end, injured Army pilot Joseph Luciano talked to an answering machine at Walter Reed hospital, trying to get an appointment for a heart scan. Then he called the Army's new Wounded Soldier and Family Hotline. Within six hours, he got the appointment &#151; along with an apology from the colonel who heads Walter Reed Army Medical Center's radiology department.
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Los Angelesâs Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital, which was erected in response to the Watts riots and is now closing, has played a vital role in the life of Watts.