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Last Friday, a federal agency concluded that Martin Luther King Jr. – Harbor Hospital in South Central Los Angeles failed to meet minimum patient-care standards. As a result, King-Harbor will lose $200 million dollars in federal funding that constitutes more than half of its budget. The announcement means that King \u2013 Harbor, which serves one the city’s poorest communities, will all but shut down. The emergency room at the hospital closed within hours of the announcement and inpatient care units will be closed in the coming weeks. Protesters descended to the hospital\u2019s front lawn last Saturday before Democratic Congresswoman Maxine Waters held a two and a half hour news conference during which she called the decision to pull funding an \u201cinjustice.\u201d King \u2013 Harbor, which was built 35 years ago in the wake of the Watts Riots, had been under federal inspection since January 2004. Federal findings over the past three in a half years concluded that patients were in immediate jeopardy due to unsanitary bronchoscopes and medication administration errors among other things. This past May a 43 year old woman died after waiting in the emergency room lobby for forty-five minutes. Despite such incidents, many members of the community are concerned about the hospital\u2019s closure and how it will affect their ability to access immediate health care in the area <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" | the entire program GUEST: Erin Aubrey Kaplan, contributing editor to the Los Angeles Times Last Friday, a federal agency concluded that Martin Luther King Jr. – Harbor Hospital in South Central Los Angeles failed to meet minimum patient-care standards. As a result, King-Harbor will lose $200 million dollars in federal funding that constitutes more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"King-Harbor\"](\"http:\/\/www.core-ca.org\/kingdrew.bmp\")
GUEST: Erin Aubrey Kaplan, contributing editor to the Los Angeles Times<\/em><\/p>\n