Local News in Brief : Hospital Closing Upheld
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge Friday upheld an action by state health officials that closed Inglewood Women’s Hospital, the state’s busiest abortion facility.
Judge Miriam A. Vogel refused the hospital’s request for an order overturning the state Department of Health Services citation that shut the hospital Wednesday for allegedly providing inadequate care amid unsanitary conditions.
The hospital’s lawyers are scheduled to return to court March 2 to again argue for a reversal of the facility’s license suspension. In addition, the state health agency must hold its own hearing and rule within 90 days whether the hospital’s license should be permanently revoked.
The state sanction has not halted all care at the facility. Ralph Lopez, chief of the health facilities division of the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, said doctors can continue to work there as long as they do not represent the facility as a hospital or keep patients for more than 24 hours.
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