LOS ANGELES : Poison Control Center Merges With County-USC
The Los Angeles Regional Poison Control Center, threatened by a severe funding shortfall last year, has been saved from closure. It has relocated to Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center to become part of the public hospital’s existing drug information center for medical professionals.
The combined service, called the Los Angeles Regional Drug and Poison Information Center, serves the public and professionals on its telephone hot lines. County health officials, who rescued the floundering poison center when the Los Angeles County Medical Assn. said it could no longer afford to run it, have committed $900,000 to support the combined drug and poison center through June 30, 1993.
But with public health dollars in short supply, the county is looking at other ways to help finance the center’s services.
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