Harbor-UCLA in trouble?

[Encephalopathy]

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http://www.latimes.com/news/custom/scimedemail/la-me-harbor13feb13,0,2871265.story

Just when I start to settle on a rank list, this comes up. Anybody have any additional information about this or know how it would affect the psych program in particular? As a prospective resident, do you think this should factor into ranking decisions? I would hate to have to go through what already happened at King-Drew.

 

[mgdsh]

http://www.latimes.com/news/custom/scimedemail/la-me-harbor13feb13,0,2871265.story

Just when I start to settle on a rank list, this comes up. Anybody have any additional information about this or know how it would affect the psych program in particular? As a prospective resident, do you think this should factor into ranking decisions? I would hate to have to go through what already happened at King-Drew.

Hm wow. I'd say that puts me in the same boat as you.

But just as an aside: let's think about how they plan on solving this problem. Let's deal with overcrowding by pulling funding and closing even more hospitals? Sounds a bit counterintuitive.

Re: The psych program... I'm assuming most of their inpatient case load comes in through the ER, and that with out a functioning psych ER the program would probably be in jeopardy. Hopefully someone with a bit more insight can chime in 🙂

 

[Encephalopathy]

Here's a more recent article saying there is no immediate danger of the hospital losing funding or having it's license revoked:

http://www.dailybreeze.com/news/ci_8257632

And this is a thread from the EM forum:

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=493758&highlight=harbor-ucla

Still though, I don't see how this could be a good thing and who knows what will happen over the next four years.