Consultants Detail Plan for King/Drew Hospital
From Times Wire Reports
About 100 community members listened intently Thursday as consultants outlined their plan to transfer oversight of troubled Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center from the county health department to a “more independent and knowledgeable board.”
The consultants, who held the meeting in the hospital auditorium, had documented problems at the hospital’s outpatient clinics. They also predicted that the hospital’s trauma unit won’t be able to reopen until July 2006 at the earliest.
Navigant Consulting Inc. is being paid $13.2 million by the county to assess King/Drew’s problems and manage its day-to-day operations.
