06-23-2007, 06:42 PM
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Regulators may close troubled inner city hospital
POSTED: 7:30 p.m. EDT, June 23, 2007
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- When Edith Isabel Rodriguez showed up in the emergency room of an inner-city hospital last month complaining of severe stomach pain, the staff was already familiar with her.
It was at least her third visit to Los Angeles County's public Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital in as many days. "You have already been seen, and there is nothing we can do," a nurse told her.
Minutes later, the 43-year-old mother of three collapsed on the floor screaming in pain and began vomiting blood. Employees ignored her, and she was soon dead.
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After Rodriguez's death, federal reports showed those efforts were failing and patients were in "immediate jeopardy." Of the 60 cases reviewed between February and June, more than a quarter received substandard care, according to the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
In February, a brain tumor patient languished in the emergency room for four days before his family drove him to another hospital for emergency surgery. A pregnant woman who complained of bleeding was given a pregnancy test and left, only to return three days later and have a miscarriage after waiting more than four hours to see a doctor.
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http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/06/23/tro....ap/index.html
Makes Loryns post seem like even more of a joke. |
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