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35-Hour Waits at County USC’s ER?
LA County officials are investigating a complaint about wait time at Big County—that’s County/USC Hospital, LA’s largest public hospital. Today’s LA Times reports that a healthcare professional says the emergency room is so crowded the average waiting time is 35 hours.
By Warren Olney • • 1 min readLA County officials are investigating a complaint about wait time at Big County—that’s County/USC Hospital, LA’s largest public hospital. Today’s LA Times reports that a healthcare professional says the emergency room is so crowded the average waiting time is 35 hours. We called the County Department of Health Services, which said anyone who could speak was in a meeting. The hospital itself said they’d been told not to talk with the media. Jim Lott is Executive Vice President of Hospital Association of Southern California…representing public as well as private hospitals.
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2 of 3Next Month’s State Election and the Cost of Auto Insurance- 0:00Prop. 17 and Populist Appeals
- 14:4035-Hour Waits at County USC’s ER?You’re reading this
- 26:54 The Gulf Oil Spill and Climate Change in an Election Year