Skip navigation
Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism University of Southern California
Southern California

Three More Hospitals Closed by Pacific Health

Medical centers in Bellflower, Newport, Hawthorne and Los Angeles to close as the hospital chain resolves financial and legal issues.

The LA Metropolitan Medical Center is one of the three hospitals which Pacific Health Corp. announced it is closing Wednesday. (Monica Parra/ATVN)
The LA Metropolitan Medical Center is one of the three hospitals which Pacific Health Corp. announced it is closing Wednesday. (Monica Parra/ATVN)
Pacific Health Corp. announced Wednesday it is closing three additional medical centers, attributing the closures to financial difficulties brought about by ongoing legal issues.

Bellflower Medical Center, Newport Specialty Hospital, and Los Angeles Metropolitan Medical Center's L.A. and Hawthorne campuses will be closed.

Wednesday's announcement brings the total closures by the Tustin-based company to four, following the closure of Anaheim General Hospital last week.

"Pacific Health Corp. has taken the difficult decision to suspend services at all three of its remaining hospitals as we work to resolve the legal issues facing our company," according to the company's statement.

The company was fined this month more than $7 million by the state for failing to pay wages and issuing invalid checks. 

"These issues include the settlement we reached with the Department of Justice last year, as well as other legal matters from our past, which have made it impossible for us to continue operating in this especially challenging economic climate for all health-care providers."

The hospitals' emergency departments will close Thursday. Current patients will continue to receive care while plans are made for their transfer to other medical facilities, according to the company.

A Pacific Health Corp. official noted that the "sub-acute care" units at Anaheim General's Buena Park Campus and Newport Speicalty Hospital will continue to provide service to speicalty patients until transfer plans are confirmed. 

It is still unclear how many jobs will affected due to the closure of the four hostpitals.

COMMENTS

The culture of Pacific Health was one of dishonesty and fraud throughout. Years and years it went on. This is the best thing that ever could have happened for potential patients of this cesspool was closure. The next best thing would be jailing the officers of Pacific Health.

LA Metro should be closed until the state and federal government get to the bottom of all the layers of Medi-cal and Medicare fraud among doctors and therapists. The hospital was horribly managed, filthy, and unsafe for patients, with no provision for separation between male and female patients, no guarding against theft, terrible food, blasting TV, no place to be outside where there weren't people smoking, but most of all, a culture of dishonesty among the doctors and therapists, where patients are not given the treatment for which the state and federal government are billed.

Leave a comment
Name:
E-mail:*
URL:
Comments:*

We've Moved!


By Sam Bergum
01/21/16 | 11:09 a.m. PST

Visit us at uscannenbergmedia.com!

USC Basketball Knocks Off Rival UCLA 89- 75


By Scott Cook
01/14/16 | 12:05 a.m. PST

USC defeats UCLA with stellar play from their Freshmen. 

Holiday Bowl - USC vs Wisconsin Post-Game Press Conference

Su'a Cravens: "It's the players that need to step up"

Darreus Rogers: "It comes down to the players"

Trojans Fall to Wisconsin in the Holiday Bowl 23-21

We detected that you might be on a mobile device such as an iPad or iPhone. Sorry, at this time the video box is only visible on desktop computers.