Summary
The decision last week to reopen a smaller Martin Luther King Jr. medical facility in a partnership with the University of California is a huge step in returning medical care to a population that has few other places to turn. The challenge now comes in appointing a board that would run the 120-bed facility.
The old way would result in political appointees whose allegiance would be to the politicians who appointed them, rather than the underserved, mostly poor population who would benefit from the hospital. MLK, at its lowest point, was known as "Killer King," because of lethal mistakes, hostile personnel and a system preserved for too many years by sound-bite politicians, whose defensiveness and racial politics facilitated the dysfunctional hospital.See the full content of this document
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New Hope for King
The new way would be to appoint members of the seven-member board who know more about running a hosp...
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