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Hoag Memorial Hospital, the most respected medical institution in Orange County, has been affiliated with the giant Catholic hospital chain Providence Health since 2016. But you wouldn’t know it from Providence’s publicity materials.
The chain removed Hoag’s three facilities from its website listing of Southern California locations sometime in late October or early November. But that was just one of several actions Providence, which is based in Renton, Wash., has taken against Hoag.
In June, Providence terminated Hoag’s specialists from St. Joseph Heritage Healthcare, its network of medical providers for managed care plans in Southern California. According to USC healthcare expert Glenn Melnick, who has been consulting with Hoag officials, Providence didn’t inform patients of the change until late November, giving them little time to find new specialists before they had to choose their healthcare plans for 2021.
By City News Service
Feb 19, 2021
SANTA ANA (CNS) - Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer today said a lawsuit challenging a DNA database overseen by his office was “outrageous and “absurd.
UC Irvine Law School professors and students filed the suit Tuesday in Orange County Superior Court against the county and Spitzer s office, seeking an injunction to prevent the D.A. s office from “coercing often indigent persons charged with misdemeanors into contributing their genetic material into its DNA database.
“The OCDA DNA collection program has solved crimes that would have never been solved, Spitzer said. “Participation in this program is completely voluntary, is in no way coercive, and involves multiple layers of safeguards to ensure absolute voluntary participation.