Expanded Olive View opens

After years of cramming two and even three patients into treatment rooms, physicians and nurses at Olive View-UCLA Medical Center celebrated Monday during the ceremonial opening of the expanded $53 million emergency department. Susan Abram in the Daily News.

The 32,000-square-foot facility will officially open March 6 with 51 treatment beds, including two for critical patients. This is likely to improve treatment and shorten wait times for emergency patients, who previously had to share one of the 30 treatment rooms or wait on gurneys in the hall of the 15,000-square-foot ER.