New Hospital Complex
A recent column by George Ramos (July 4) implies that the University of Southern California may somehow benefit financially when a new hospital complex is built to replace the deteriorating buildings at the Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center.
For the record: The new hospital will be a community resource, owned and operated by Los Angeles County. USC will continue to provide the doctors, as it has for more than 100 years.
The current facility is substandard and must be closed. Failure to build a new medical center would leave large numbers of Eastside residents without care and cripple the county’s trauma network.
JOSEPH P. VAN DER MEULEN MD
Vice President Health Affairs, USC
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