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Harbor-UCLA Medical Center Opens New Clinic in Torrance
Los Angeles County officials opened a six-story clinic building at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance Wednesday, marking a major milestone in a $1.8 billion effort to modernize the medical campus and expand access to health care. Supervisor Holly Mitchell led a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the 373,000-square-foot facility, which will serve...
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Providence Cedars-Sinai names chief nursing officer
Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana (Calif.) Medical Center recently named Shalina Steccato, MSN, RN, as its chief nursing officer. Ms. Steccato joined the hospital in 2023 after holding nursing leadership positions at several Los Angeles metro area hospitals, including Dignity Health-California Hospital Medical Center, Olympia Medical Center and Community Hospital Long Beach. At Tarzana Medical Center, she most recently served as director of emergency and critical care services. Ms. Steccato became CNO in August.
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El Segundo Caregiving Firm Cuts 738 Jobs After Health Net Drops Key Medi-Cal Benefit
A home care company based in El Segundo is laying off 738 workers effective September 15, after the insurer Health Net decided to eliminate a Medi-Cal benefit that funded their jobs. The company gave employees just 15 days' notice of the mass layoff, far short of the 60 days generally required under California law, though it has pledged to keep paying affected caregivers through October 23.
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Former MLK Hospital Discharge Planner Alleges Patient Steering Practices
A former discharge planner is suing Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital for retaliation and wrongful termination, alleging she was terminated for coming forward about alleged patient steering practices to the facility’s preferred vendors. Kimberlee Saffore’s Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit seeks unspecified compensatory and punitive damages as well...
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Legislation in Response to Lineage Fire Awaits Action by Newsom
Two state lawmakers and local elected officials who represent Boyle Heights urged Gov. Gavin Newsom Wednesday to sign bills aimed at supporting residents impacted by the June 17 Lineage Logistics warehouse fire, and prevent a similar disaster from occurring elsewhere across California. Mayor Karen Bass, Assemblyman Mark González, D-Los Angeles,...
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Street Medicine Brings Care to Unhoused Angelenos — But Housing Remains the Missing Prescription
By the time a street medicine team met Alfred Flores last June along the Los Angeles River , two spider bites on his back had swollen with infection, untreated for three days. Mobile street medicine teams treat the immediate health needs of the unhoused, but barriers to care, trauma, stigma and housing costs can leave the underlying causes of homelessness unresolved.
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[Updated] Southern California powerhouse 24 Home Care to lay off 738
Effective Sept. 15, 24 Home Care, based in El Segundo, CA, plans to lay off 738 employees, according to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) issued by the California Employment Development Department. The firm, which supports aging adults, veterans, and individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, notified the department...
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Nurses strike at 4 Prime hospitals across 3 states
Nurses and healthcare workers at four hospitals operated by Ontario, Calif.-based Prime Healthcare hospitals held one-day strikes Sept. 3, California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee, an affiliate of National Nurses United, confirmed to Becker’s. The walkouts covered more than 2,200 nurses and healthcare workers at West Anaheim (Calif.) Medical...
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Keck Medicine Brings Specialized Care Closer to Pasadena
A serious diagnosis doesn’t just change a person’s health, it changes their world. Suddenly, there are specialists to see, treatment options to consider, and life-altering decisions to make. For many patients, finding the right care can become as challenging and overwhelming as the diagnosis itself. What comes next often depends on finding the right team, in the right location.
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Nurses protest at Kaiser Permanente’s Hollywood hospital
More than 300 nurses from Kaiser Permanente’s Los Angeles Medical Center demonstrated outside the hospital on Sunset Boulevard on Sept. 1, calling for improved working conditions and better staffing. The demonstration was one of 22 protests at Kaiser Permanente hospitals throughout California on Sept. 1 organized by the California...