Northridge Hospital Medical Center

State of California, County of Los Angeles Partner with Dignity Health, Kaiser Permanente to Open ‘Los Angeles Surge Hospital’

April 6, 2020

Facility to treat expected surge of patients with COVID-19 in LA region Governor Gavin Newsom today announced the establishment of the Los Angeles Surge Hospital, a temporary facility in Los Angeles that will expand access to additional beds and expand ICU capacity for patients who contract COVID-19. Dignity Health and Kaiser Permanente will partner with the State of California and the County of Los Angeles to open the facility, which will be located on the campus of the former St. Vincent Medical Center in central Los Angeles. Last month, under his Declaration of State Emergency and Executive Order, Governor Newsom

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Comedian Kevin Hart Recovering from Back Surgery After Crash

City News ServiceSeptember 6, 2019

Comedian Kevin Hart is recuperating today from surgery to repair a back injury suffered when his 1970 Plymouth Barracuda rolled down an embankment on Mulholland Highway in Calabasas.

Family Health Op-Ed Opinion

Empower Nurses to Blow the Whistle on Unsafe Hospitals

Gayle BatisteMarch 24, 2017

Saving lives was the reason I became a registered nurse. For more than 30 years, I’ve worked with some of the sickest patients at Northridge Hospital Medical Center, helping them on the path to recovery. My passion for saving lives has taken me across the U.S. and as far as the Philippines, Nepal, and Haiti to help with disaster response. Today, I’m worried about a brewing disaster that affects people here in my community: a chronic understaffing by hospitals that puts the lives of the patients I care for at risk and jeopardizes nurses who are doing their job to protect patient safety.