Pediatric care shrinks across California
Tuesday, January 27, 2009 - 18:35
in Health & Medicine
More than 800 beds were lost from 1998 to 2007, with roughly half of those cuts in Los Angeles County. Within two hours of Roman Rodriguez's birth in Fontana, ambulances rushed him to Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, 50 miles away. State-of-the-art equipment kept the newborn alive as doctors performed five surgeries to repair intestines that had wiggled through a hole in his diaphragm and landed on his right lung.