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With the future closing of an Apple Valley hospital, Victor Valley Global Medical Center plans to expand its Victorville hospital in 2022.

Southland Hospitals Don't Require Employees To Get Vaccinated - Los Angeles, CA - While nationwide uproar brews over hospitals requiring staff to get the COVID-19 vaccination, LA area hospitals have no such policy.

The uproar from some hospital employees gained national attention this week, when the Houston Methodist hospital system in Texas suspended 178 workers for failing to meet a Monday deadline to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.

While some hospitals face pushback from employees over mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policies, hospitals in Los Angeles and Orange counties have largely avoided the issue, with hospital representatives saying they aren't requiring workers to get the vaccine.

KPC Health Global Medical Centers Win National Awards for Quality of Care, Patient Safety February 23, 2021 13:22 ET | Source: KPC Health KPC Health CORONA, Calif., Feb. 23, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- KPC Health’s Global Medical Centers have been selected as recipients for numerous local and national awards related to quality of care, patient safety, and pandemic response. The complete list of awards and facilities are listed below. “These awards are a testament to ...

Nurses Protest Working Conditions at Orange County Hospitals Amid Pandemic Registered nurses from four different Orange County, California, hospitals protested Dec. 23 against declining hospital safety conditions resulting from an increase of COVID-19-infected patients. Dozens of nurses attended the scheduled protests, which started at 6 a.m. and lasted approximately two and a half hours. They were held simultaneously in front of the Chapman Global Medical Center in the City of Orange, the Sout...

Nurses in Orange County protest staffing conditions at local hospitals Orange County nurses are protesting against hospitals, saying staffing ratios are dangerously low and unsafe for patients. KABC Share: ORANGE COUNTY (KABC) -- The support for nurses demonstrating outside South Coast Global Medical Center is clear. It was one of four protests at Orange County hospitals. Nurses say that their safety and patient lives are at risk after the state allowed their hospital, part of KPC Health, to in...