MemorialCare lays off 72 workers at Long Beach hospitals; will close outpatient pharmacy
MemorialCare lays off workers at Long Beach hospitals, plans to shutter Long Beach Medical Center pharmacy.
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MemorialCare lays off workers at Long Beach hospitals, plans to shutter Long Beach Medical Center pharmacy.
Long Beach Medical Center's outpatient retail pharmacy, part of MemorialCare, is closing Feb. 2, affecting 13 positions.
The announcement comes nearly five months after the unexpected resignation of current CEO John Bishop and then-Chief Operating Officer Ike Mmeje.
Four state, federal and nonprofit agencies began investigating Memorial earlier this year, when one patient died after being given the wrong medication and another died after a fall in the hospital.
"This is a day we’ve been waiting for and when I learned that our last COVID patient had been discharged," Dr. Graham Tse, physician-in-charge for the MemorialCare campus, said, "I was overcome with a sense of relief."