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Site touts expert advice on airfare deals
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterFarecast, a Web site that uses science to find air deals, has launched new features that one analyst called "a very big leap for consumers" -- with a caveat. Using the key feature, Fare Alerts, deal shoppers can get free daily e-mails that advise them to...Tags: Corporate Officers, Trips and Vacations, Consumers, Los Angeles Times, New York
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Hospital Backers Concede Choices Tough
Times Staff WritersA day after Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center resoundingly failed a "make or break" federal inspection, some of the iconic public hospital's most vocal supporters conceded that it may not be fixable — at least not by the county. Supervisor...Tags: Zev Yaroslavsky, Assault, Government Health Care, Medicare, Minority Groups
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King/Drew Fails Final U.S. Test
Times Staff WritersFederal regulators notified Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center late Friday that it had failed what was billed as a "make or break" inspection and would lose annual funding of about $200 million — more than half the hospital's budget —...Tags: Government Health Care, Medicare, Politics, Medical Procedures and Tests, Minority Groups
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Tempers Flare Over King/Drew Advisors
Times Staff WriterJust months after forming an advisory board to help save the troubled Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center, Los Angeles County supervisors Tuesday asked for the board's bylaws to be reworked and even raised the possibility of disbanding it. The...Tags: Zev Yaroslavsky, Gloria Molina, David Janssen, Plastic Surgeons, Los Angeles
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Schools company finds misconduct
Career Education Corp., which runs for-profit schools including Lehigh Valley College, said Monday an investigative committee it formed to study alleged securities law violations found wrongful conduct by some employees but cleared senior management....Tags: Business Enterprises, Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., U.S. Department of Justice, Crimes, Companies and Corporations
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County Health Chief Is Rebuked
Times Staff WritersLos Angeles County supervisors sharply rebuked their health department chief during a rancorous public debate Tuesday and ordered him to physically move his office to Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center. "Park yourself there," Supervisor Gloria...Tags: Zev Yaroslavsky, Government Health Care, Medical Procedures and Tests, Employment, Medical Services
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Another Fatal Failure at King/Drew
Times Staff WritersAnother patient hooked up to a cardiac monitor died at Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center recently after nurses failed to notice the patient's deteriorating vital signs, Los Angeles County health officials reported in a confidential memo late...Tags: Zev Yaroslavsky, Science, Science and Technology, Medical Services, Los Angeles
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3 King/Drew Deaths Blamed on Lapses
Times Staff WritersOver the course of four days late last month, three more patients died at the beleaguered Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center after what officials believe were critical lapses in care. A Los Angeles County coroner's report attributes the death...Tags: Zev Yaroslavsky, Government Health Care, Liver, Plastic Surgeons, Medical Services
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Massive overhaul of ailing hospital urged
Times Staff WritersIf Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center is to survive, let alone thrive, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors needs to get out of the way. That's an opinion shared by most of the two dozen healthcare experts The Times asked for solutions...Tags: Report Cards, Racism, Health Organizations, Plastic Surgeons, Los Angeles
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County May Hand Control of King/Drew to Private Firm
Times Staff WriterIn response to a series of medical lapses and patient deaths, Los Angeles County officials put forth a plan Wednesday to hand over day-to-day management of Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center to a private consulting firm. The move would mark...Tags: Employment, Public Relations, Medical Services, Unions, Los Angeles
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3 unions on creditors panel
Tribune staff reporterUnited Airlines, whose internecine worker-management strife contributed to its downfall, now finds that its beleaguered unions will play a significant role in shaping the way the company will reinvent itself. On Friday, the Association of Flight...Tags: Financially Distressed Companies, Employment, Air Transportation, Unions, Galileo Galilei
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