Emergency Services and Trauma Care

The county emergency medical services system is facing increasingly challenging conditions such as overcrowding, which causes higher numbers of frustrated patients to leave without receiving care. In 2002, the average percent of time that the L.A. County DHS emergency rooms were on diversion climbed to 62 percent. Numerous studies document an increase in poorer outcomes among patients leaving without being seen, as well as longer transport times for diverted ambulances leading to higher rates of illness regardless of insurance status. The Frequent Users of Health Services Initiative is a five-year project funded by The California Endowment and the California HealthCare Foundation supporting six collaborative projects throughout the state focused on decreasing unnecessary use of emergency rooms and avoidable hospital stays.

Publications and Documents

Dec 13 2011
Dr. Mitchell Katz , L.A. County Department of Health Service
Status Report on Issues Related to the Transition to the New LAC+USC Medical Center

Nov 22 2011
Dr. Mitchell Katz , L.A. County Department of Health Services
Status Report on Issues Related to the Transition to the New LAC+USC Medical Center

Nov 15 2011
Dr. Mitchell Katz , L.A. County Department of Health Services
Average Daily Census, Hospital-Based Outpatient Visits (ER Department and Ambulatory Care) Report

Nov 08 2011
Dr. Mitchell Katz , L.A. County Department of Health Services
Status Report on Issues Related to the Transition to the New LAC+USC Medical Center

Oct 19 2011
Douglas McCarthy, Sabrina How, David Radley and Cathy Schoen, The Commonwealth Fund
Why Not the Best? Results from the National Scorecard on U.S. Health System Performance, 2011

Oct 18 2011
Gail Farber, L.A. County Department of Public Works (DPW)
Local Worker Hiring Data for Harbor-UCLA and MLK Medical Center Replacement Inpatient Tower Projects

Oct 05 2011
Lucien Wulsin, Insure the Uninsured Project (ITUP)
1115 Waiver Implementation Update

Sep 27 2011
Dr. Mitchell Katz, L.A. County Department of Health Services
Status Report on Issues Related to the Transition to the New LAC+USC Medical Center

Sep 20 2011
Gail Farber, L.A. County Department of Public Works (DPW)
Local Worker Hiring Data for Harbor-UCLA and MLK Medical Center Replacement Inpatient Tower Projects

Sep 13 2011
Dr. Mitchell Katz , L.A. County Department of Health Services
Status Report on Issues Related to the Transition to the New LAC+USC Medical Center


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