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Jun 14, 2007 9:45 am US/Pacific

911 Tapes Renew Pressure To Close King Hospital

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LOS ANGELES (AP) ― The pressure is mounting on Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital amid new reports of breakdowns in patient care.

Earlier this week, the county Board of Supervisors grilled health officials about conditions at the public hospital. The board ordered them to return in two weeks with a plan to deal with a hospital shutdown if it is unable to correct deficiencies laid out in a federal inspection that concluded emergency room patients were in "immediate jeopardy."

The facility came under renewed scrutiny with release of 911 calls seeking help for a woman who lay dying and unattended on the floor of the emergency room in May. Relatives say she lay in pain for 45 minutes before dying of a perforated bowel.

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