First Step Taken Toward Building Trauma Center
Los Angeles County officials announced Thursday that the first step has been taken toward construction of a $65-million trauma center at Martin Luther King Jr. / Drew Medical Center.
The Board of Supervisors this week approved the expenditure of almost $1 million for design plans for the center, which will be financed through the sale of county bonds. Construction of the six-level facility is expected to begin in 1993.
“The King / Drew Trauma and Diagnostic Center will provide much-needed services in a health-care crisis situation that has been further exacerbated by the withdrawal of other trauma facilities from the county’s trauma care network,” said Arnold Butler, president of King’s General Hospital Authority Commission. Since 1987, King’s trauma center has treated from 20% to 37% of all trauma patients in Los Angeles County, he said.
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