City of Angels' admissions issues cited four years ago, L.A. County report says
Sunday, August 17, 2008 - 14:21
in Health & Medicine
In 2004, state and county inspectors noted inappropriate practices at the medical center that is now being sued for providing unnecessary services to patients recruited on skid row. State and county inspectors found serious irregularities in the admission and treatment policies of a Los Angeles hospital four years before authorities raided it and charged its chief executive with providing unnecessary medical services to patients recruited on skid row, according to a confidential county report reviewed by The Times.