Patients being moved to the new, improved -- smaller -- County-USC

The new facility, which serves some of L.A. County's neediest patients, has better equipment, more private rooms, faster elevators and better organization. But critics focus on its 25% fewer beds. For three-quarters of a century, the county's flagship public hospital called a cavernous Depression-era building home. Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center was drab, with few windows. Most wards housed six patients to a room, few were air-conditioned.

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