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 [...]

There’s another side to the impending changes on the adult side of Memorial Medical Center–which as we told you Monday have at least one longtime physician worried that the underinsured and uninsured may lose access to one of the city’s finest hospitals.

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 [...]