California
After a whirlwind courtship, Scripps Memorial Hospitals and Scripps Clinic & Research Foundation have agreed to unify next Jan. 1, leaving Sharp HealthCare as the jilted party in a health-care triangle.
July 28, 1990
Unions: Frustrated RNs feel they are finally getting the upper hand in negotiations.
June 1, 2002
Business
Scores of California hospitals with high rates of patient infections have not been inspected within the last five years, according to a petition filed Monday by Consumers Union.
Jan. 24, 2017
Labor unrest in Los Angeles County’s sprawling public health care system spread Thursday as X-ray technicians walked out in support of hundreds of striking nurses, and resident physicians at the 1,445-bed County-USC Medical Center threatened to “shut down the hospital” by staging their own strike this morning.
Jan. 29, 1988
As Los Angeles County supervisors made a rare unified plea for financial help Monday, emergency room nurses at County-USC Medical Center staged a sickout to protest their pending layoffs--briefly forcing the nation’s largest public hospital to close its emergency room and trauma unit to ambulances.
Sept. 19, 1995
Decision to cut surgical care, other services at Memorial in Inglewood raises fresh concerns about the availability of healthcare in South L.A.
Oct. 12, 2006
More than 1,000 nurses from Long Beach Memorial Medical Center are planning their second daylong strike Thursday for better wages and pensions as their union allies threaten to boycott the hospital.
Nov. 12, 2002
Hospital vote pits upstart union against colossus
Dec. 17, 2009
If approved, the pact would be the first for them at Long Beach Memorial and would increase pay and benefits for 1,300 people.
Dec. 9, 2002
The action today at Long Beach Memorial comes as labor unions continue to press organizing efforts in the Southland.
Oct. 23, 2002