Contradicting an alarming announcement by the doctor who chairs its Department of Medicine, a spokesperson for Long Beach Memorial Medical Center (LBMMC) insists that the hospital will neither drastically reduce its bed count nor its services to emergency patients when it reorganizes some of its services Nov. 1.
“We have 453 active beds and will have [...]

VETERAN PHYSICIAN CALLS IT “SHAMEFUL CHAPTER” IN HOSPITAL’S HISTORY
Two days remain before a Nov. 1 policy change at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center will turn away ambulances from its emergency room and slash the number of medical beds from 135 to just 50, drastically reducing the level of urgent health care in Long Beach. At [...]

Long Beach Memorial Medical Center gets ready to reorganize
In a move aimed at–depending on whom you talk to–either reducing the number of uninsured patients admitted through its emergency room, or improving care to Long Beach residents, Long Beach Memorial Medical Center next month will reclassify a certain number of its general purpose medical beds.
An exact [...]