800 at Memorial Hospital in Inglewood Given Layoff Notices
By Sam Quinones, Times Staff Writer
October 19, 2006
Some 800 employees at Memorial hospital in Inglewood received layoff notices Wednesday, as owner Centinela Freeman HealthSystem moved forward with plans to transfer medical services from the facility.
A spokeswoman for the hospital group said about 150 employees would actually lose their jobs. The rest would be transferred to the system's two other campuses: Centinela, 1 1/2 miles away in Inglewood; and Marina in Marina del Rey.
Many have already applied and been offered positions," said Cyndee Woelfle.
Still, the move did nothing to calm the ire of community activists, angered at the erosion of medical services in one of the county's most densely packed areas.
Last month, the hospital group announced that it would be closing the emergency room at Memorial in December, leaving the Centinela emergency room to take up the slack.
Then, earlier this month the hospital confirmed that most medical services at Memorial would also be transferred to Centinela.
Woelfle said Centinela can absorb Memorial's average of 90 admitted patients. Centinela averages 200 admitted patients, but is licensed for 358, she said.
She said Wednesday's layoffs were deemed necessary in light of the planned closure of Memorial's emergency room, which accounts for almost all the hospital's admissions.
Centinela Freeman is looking for outside companies to provide long-term acute care and a skilled-nursing and hospice center, as well as pediatric services, at Memorial, she said.
Remaining at the campus will be acute rehabilitation and radiation therapy, she said.
sam.quinones@latimes.com
October 19, 2006
Some 800 employees at Memorial hospital in Inglewood received layoff notices Wednesday, as owner Centinela Freeman HealthSystem moved forward with plans to transfer medical services from the facility.
A spokeswoman for the hospital group said about 150 employees would actually lose their jobs. The rest would be transferred to the system's two other campuses: Centinela, 1 1/2 miles away in Inglewood; and Marina in Marina del Rey.
Many have already applied and been offered positions," said Cyndee Woelfle.
Still, the move did nothing to calm the ire of community activists, angered at the erosion of medical services in one of the county's most densely packed areas.
Last month, the hospital group announced that it would be closing the emergency room at Memorial in December, leaving the Centinela emergency room to take up the slack.
Then, earlier this month the hospital confirmed that most medical services at Memorial would also be transferred to Centinela.
Woelfle said Centinela can absorb Memorial's average of 90 admitted patients. Centinela averages 200 admitted patients, but is licensed for 358, she said.
She said Wednesday's layoffs were deemed necessary in light of the planned closure of Memorial's emergency room, which accounts for almost all the hospital's admissions.
Centinela Freeman is looking for outside companies to provide long-term acute care and a skilled-nursing and hospice center, as well as pediatric services, at Memorial, she said.
Remaining at the campus will be acute rehabilitation and radiation therapy, she said.
sam.quinones@latimes.com
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