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Providence Southern California and Kaiser Permanente have announced a partnership to construct a new 260-bed hospital in Victorville with an expected 2026 opening.

Jun. 4— Kaiser Permanente and Providence Southern California are partnering to bring a new hospital to the High Desert— with an anticipated 2026 opening— in a venture that will also mean the closure of the nearly 65- year-old Providence St. Mary Medical Center in Apple Valley. Erik G. Wexler, president of Operations and Strategy for Providence— South, told the Daily...

 E-Mail MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL (05/25/2021) -- An ongoing COVID-19 clinical trial studying the outpatient use of metformin, a generic medication for type 2 diabetes, has expanded and will now be the nations first to include fluvoxamine, an antidepressant, and ivermectin, an antiparasitic, as possible treatment options to prevent hospitalization and "long COVID." Led by the University of Minnesota Medical School, the multi-site clinical trial received new support - $1 million from the Rainwater C...

Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a motion by Supervisor Kathryn Barger and coauthored by Supervisor Holly Mitchell that will allow the Department of Mental Health to accept a $2.9 million grant from the California Health Facilities Financing Authority to develop 12 Crisis Stabilization Unit beds for children at the Olive View-UCLA Medical Center and the Martin Luther King Jr. Child and Family Wellbeing Center.

Transcript Unger: Hello, this is the American Medical Associations COVID-19 Update. Today, were talking about how to combat anti-Asian racism both during the pandemic and beyond, and physicians important role in that effort. Im joined today by Dr. Audiey Kao, the AMAs vice president of ethics in Los Angeles; Dr. Anna Yap, an emergency medicine resident at the UCLA-Olive View in Los Angeles; and Hannah Seoh, the AMAs director of health equity performance and operations in Chicago. Im Todd Unger...

It was a Tuesday exactly half a century ago, just after 6 a.m., and most of Los Angeles was dozing. The wake-up call lasted 12 seconds, registered 6.6 on the Richter scale, buckled buildings and killed 64 people. Those who recall what is known as the Sylmar or San Fernando earthquake of 1971 describe the experience as if the ground is still shaking, with specific markers seared into their memories. “Lots of broken glass in the kitchen, and the five-gallon Sparkletts bottle exploded on impact,...

Print How close Los Angeles came to what would have been — many times over— the deadliest disaster in U.S. history remains a matter of historical conjecture. When the Sylmar earthquake rumbled through Los Angeles 50 years ago, on Feb. 9, 1971, the top of the earthen Lower Van Norman Dam melted into the reservoir. No one knows exactly what kept the dam near Granada Hills from collapsing. Was it the number of feet of earthen wall that remained? Was it the duration of the quake, since a few mo...

Updated on February 9, 2021 at 11:37 am Getty Fifty years ago this week, the deadly Sylmar earthquake rattled Southern California, leaving dozens of people dead and causing more than $500 million in property damage. Also known as the San Fernando earthquake, the Feb. 8, 1971, magnitude-6.5 quake happened on a Tuesday at about 6:01 a.m. Its origin was in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains north of Los Angeles, but shaking was felt across a widespread part of the San Fernando Valley. It w...

50 Years Later, an Earthquakes Legacy Continues Release Date: February 4, 2021 The San Fernando earthquake struck Southern California 50 years ago, killing 64 people and costing over $500 million in damages. The quake prompted federal, state and local action to reduce earthquake risks and bolster public safety. At 6 o’clock in the morning on February 9, 1971, the reservoir keeper of the Lower Van Norman Dam in Southern California tried to get out of bed.   He couldn’t. A magnitude-6.6 ea...

California Sends Dozens Of Firefighter Paramedics, EMTs To Help Hospitals Inundated With COVID-19 Patients Syndicated Local – CBS Los Angeles LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — As cases of COVID-19 show no signs of abating, the state’s Mutual Aid System is sending fire and rescue paramedics and EMTs to assist in emergency rooms into the hardest-hit hospitals. The firefighter paramedics and EMT’s will be sent on 14-day deployments to help in emergency rooms and other vital medical are...