Plans for King-Harbor
Moving forward with plans to convert Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital to a clinic, Los Angeles County supervisors ordered Monday that workers at the beleaguered center be evaluated for competency before they are reassigned to other facilities. Troy Anderson in the Daily News.
After a special three-hour public hearing, the supervisors took the initial steps to get the hospital reopened within a year, but said they first had to guarantee its 1,600 workers are qualified.
"We can't allow the poison we had at MLK to poison the rest of our facilities," Supervisor Gloria Molina said. "I know it's a tough thing to say, but somebody has to say it.