St. Francis Medical Center (Lynwood)
- St. Francis Medical Center (Lynwood)
Infobox Hospital
Name = St. Francis Medical Center
Org/Group = Daughters of Charity Health System
Caption =
Location =
Region = Lynwood
State = California
Country = US
HealthCare = Private
Type = Community
Speciality =
Standards =
Emergency = II
Affiliation= None
Beds = 384
Founded = 1945
Closed =
Website = http://www.stfrancismedicalcenter.org/
Wiki-Links = |
St. Francis Medical Center is a not-for-profit hospital in Lynwood, California, USA.
History
The hospital was founded in 1945 by the Sisters of St. Francis of Penance and Christian Charity and in 1981 acquired by the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul. [cite web| url=http://www.stfrancismedicalcenter.org/about/facts.htm |title=Facts about St. Francis Medical Center |accessdate=2007-05-03] [cite web |url=http://www.stfrancismedicalcenter.org/about/history.htm |title=History of St. Francis Medical Center |accessdate=2007-05-03] In January 1996, the hospital's emergency department was designated a level II trauma center. [cite web| url=http://www.emsa.ca.gov/emsdivision/trma_ctr.pdf |title=Trauma Centers in California |accessdate=2007-05-03]
After the August 2007 closure of the troubled nearby public hospital, Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital (King-Harbor), St. Francis' proximity caused it to receive the greater number of former patients. The hospital has since expanded its emergency room by 14 beds and seen an increase in patients to 180 per day (from 155), with the intensive care unit seeing an average rise from 26 patients to 33. As King-Harbor was long a major hospital for the city's sickest and poorest residents, the increase in uninsured and under-insured patients has put stress on the finances of the facility.[Jennifer Steinhauser, [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/05/us/05southla.html A City Where Hospitals Are as Ill as the Patients] , "The New York Times", June 5, 2008, Accessed June 6, 2008.] ]References
External links
* [http://www.stfrancismedicalcenter.org/ St. Francis Medical Center Official Website]
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