The Press-Telegram’s Brenda Duran writes today on the changes underway at Memorial Medical Center–and finds much the same situation I told you about on Thursday.
Here’s her lede:
“A reduction of 61 beds, an extended triage and wait-management plan, and new private specialty rooms for patients are among changes being implemented this month by Long Beach Memorial [...]

Memorial Medical Center cuts 61 beds, but what it means depends upon whom you ask

“I know you’re looking for a story,” Long Beach Memorial Medical Center’s public relations guy Rick Damrel says understandingly, late in a telephone conversation we had Thursday morning.
He’s right–and I’ve just asked him something about the economic stability of Long Beach’s [...]