TRAUMA: Six months after Orange County’s fourth...

TRAUMA: Six months after Orange County’s fourth trauma center quit the emergency system, officials may be close to the impossible: persuading Long Beach Memorial Medical Center to join their ailing network. . . . Hospital execs need to decide soon. After July 1, they’ll lose $125,000 in tax monies reserved for a new center. . . . Meanwhile, county officials anxiously await a reply. Said one: “It’s like when your wife’s waiting to deliver. And she’s late.”