Molina Should Apologize For Slander of King Hospital Employees

Here’s what L.A. County Supervisor Gloria Molina said at Monday’s Supervisor’s meeting on King Hospital, “Employees should be carefully screened before they are given jobs at other facilities.
We can't allow what has happened and the kind of poison that we've had at Martin Luther King Hospital to poison the rest of our health care system.''

If Molina had stopped at the bit about carefully screening King employees before transferring them she’d be on firm ground. After all, employers want the best and brightest, most competent, best trained and qualified employees they can find in their employ. But the good Supervisor couldn’t help herself and had to slander the King employees—all of them with the dig about them poisoning the system. Molina to my knowledge is not a trained nurse, physician, or medical practitioner, yet calling them poison—strong words—was tantamount to a blanket indictment of all the King employees.

Now keep in mind even King’s worst detractors among medical professionals have long commended the hospital and its component training facility Charles Drew Medical School for turning out some of the finest, professional interns, surgeons, GPs, and medical technicians around.

The CMS which ultimately flunked King never intimated in its voluminous critical surveys that all, most, or even many of King’s staff were shoddy and incompetent. As in all institutions and companies with huge staffs, the problems were created by a few employees. But “Dr./RN” Molina ignored that and wagged the finger at the entire King medical crew.

But then this is the same Molina that has chomped at the bit from the start of the King drama to close it. And never lifted a finger to do anything to improve it or help correct the cited deficiencies at the hospital. So there’s no surprise that she’d use CMS’s F report on King to get a last dig in at it, in this case, them, them being the generally hard working King staff.

“Dr.” Molina should publicly apologize and apologize now for her slander and slur. If one isn’t forthcoming, King supporters say they’ll publicly call her out on it at a King hospital roundtable on Saturday, August 18. Go to it!