Verity Health has asked a bankruptcy court for permission to close its doors, and while no date has been given, staff are packing up.
Many years ago, Gilbert San Juan watched as a wrecking ball demolished the old St. Vincent Medical Center.
Pointing at a sepia-toned framed photograph of the old building labeled “1927,” San Juan declared: “It was beautiful.” The hospital leans heavily on Medicaid and Medicare, which reimburses the hospital at lower rates than commercial insurance, according to experts. It sits in a working-class, predominantly Latino neighborhood with large Mexican and Central American immigrant populations.
According to its website, doctors at St. Vincent Medical Center would later become the first to perform an open heart surgery on the West Coast, the first to offer hemodialysis to kidney failure patients, the first to perform an artificial heart implant and the first to perform a human heart transplantation.As L.A. prospered, so did the hospital.
The bankruptcy sparked concerns in communities about the fate of the hospitals. Santa Clara County has taken over operations of two of the hospitals — O’Connor Hospital in San Jose and St. Louise Regional Hospital in Gilroy. The move came after the California attorney general demanded oversight of the transfer.St. Francis Medical Center in Lynwood has also been the subject of debate, because of its importance to the southeast Los Angeles County region.
Through a spokeswoman, Verity Health declined to allow longtime staff members and heads of these organizations to speak to a Times reporter. When the Martin Luther King Jr. Hospital closed in 2007, the number of uninsured patients that one local hospital treated tripled from 12.9% in 1999 to 44.6% in 2009, according to a 2016 study co-authored byWhen a hospital closes its emergency room and its patients are diverted to the next closest hospital, both the patients being transported and the patients who were already receiving care in the hospital experience higher mortality rates, Hsia said.
Verity Health has said patients in need of emergency care will be directed to eight hospitals within a three-mile radius of St. Vincent Medical Center, although it didn’t name which hospitals.
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