Los Angeles hospital fails CMS inspection, loses funding
Accreditation Connection, October 9, 2006
Martin Luther King Jr./Charles R. Drew Medical Center in Los Angeles learned September 22 that it had failed an inspection by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in nine of 23 areas, the Washington Post reported. The facility will lose $200 million of its $380 million annual budget at the end of the year as a result, according to the paper.
The south central Los Angeles hospital has suffered from failed inspections, mismanagement, and patient care problems over the past 20 years, the Post reported. King/Drew has been out of compliance with Medicare standards since January 2004 and lost its JCAHO accreditation in early 2005. The hospital's trauma center was closed in 2004.
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to approve the outline of a plan to hand over management of King/Drew to Harbor-UCLA Medical Center and drastically cut back services at King/Drew, the paper reported.
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