More King-Harbor hospital workers have criminal backgrounds
Tuesday, September 9, 2008 - 10:28
in Health & Medicine
A new report also finds that staffers often deliver inferior patient care compared with other Los Angeles County facilities. More than 10% of the Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital employees whose backgrounds were examined by the county had criminal histories, according to a long-awaited analysis released Monday that also found the King nurses provided inferior care.
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