King Drew Medical Center

Introduction

Medical Center Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) was a health care center, for urgency and as a outpatient clinic of excellence for health care, along with promotion and health prevention urban development in the area of economic development. The County of Los Angeles has invested nearly $ 400 million in public funds to promote the quality of health and wellness services in the field of Watts Willow brook. It was originally established for the public and it was close in august 2007 due to poor record of patient care. The design new Center for Public Health includes a community meeting room, a physical education park, and a kitchen for culinary classes and community activities. This facility will complement the Hospital existing and new services to health will be provided at the new hospital and MLK and the Center for Multi-Service Ambulatory Care or "Multi-Service Ambulatory Care Center (MACC) (earch.proquest.com).

Discussion

Martin Luther King Hospital funded publicly was closed on 2007 in august, closing entire hospital which adversely impacted on the community and the students' who were studying there. Closure of the busy trauma center, emergency department, and residency training program directly impacted on the society, as society was dependent on the publicly funded hospital for their healthcare. Researchers report in the November/December issue of the Annals of Family Medicine that the majority of primary care physicians interviewed (28/42) felt some negative effect of the closure on their patients and practices. The themes that emerged from these interviews describe a primary care workforce bearing the brunt of patient care without adequate patient care support," write study authors Kara Odom Walker, MD, MPH, MSHS, from the University of California, San Francisco, and colleagues. The researchers note that physicians in both underserved and non-underserved settings felt the effects of the closure.

However, though physicians whose practices were in close proximity to the hospital felt the effect of the closure most acutely, physicians whose practices were up to 20 miles away also felt its effect. Previous research has examined the overall repercussions of safety net hospital closures, but few studies have examined the effect of such closures on primary care physicians. Therefore, a community advisory board composed of researchers, medical educators, physician leaders, and community clinic administrators designed the current study to assess the effect of the hospital's closing on healthcare providers. Using a semi-structured interview format, researchers asked local primary care physicians how the closure affected their practices. Question topics included, but were not limited to, the effect of the closure on admitting privileges, specialty care, elective surgery, teaching, and emergency care. The interviews were conducted between 6 and 13 months after the hospital closure. The researchers interviewed 42 safety net and private practice physicians within and beyond the 12-mile estimated service area of Martin Luther King Hospital. The participating physicians ranged in age from 31 to 73 years; with a mean age of 48 years, and 45% were women. The majority of respondents specialized in either family medicine or internal ...