King Drew Closes

Just a couple of days after my tirade we got word at work that MLK (King Drew Medical Center) was going to close. On the Redinet (a computer program that lets us know the status of area hospitals such as closed to ALS runs, or closed to trauma runs) MLK posted themselves as closed to internal disaster. This means that they are closed to all ambulance traffic with no exceptions. They are doing this so that they can start to close the hospital without more patients coming in. I don't know hat they are planning to do with the walk-in patients. The downside is that it will be a little bit busier at other local hospitals.