MLK Jr. Community Hospital in Willowbrook is facing a crisis due to staggering cuts to Medicaid, stemming from the Big Beautiful Bill. "If that hospital shuts down, people will die," said Congresswoman Maxine Waters, who represents Willowbrook.
After the Department of Health Care Services notified state prosecutors of potential fraud, investigators discovered a scheme in which individuals bought personal information for non-California residents from the dark web and enrolled them in Medi-Cal, the state's equivalent of Medicaid, AG Bonta's office said.
A fire led to the temporary closure of the emergency room at Adventist Health White Memorial in Montebello, forcing the evacuation of some of the facility's most vulnerable patients.
Five Disneyland cast members were hospitalized Tuesday due to a hazmat incident in the backstage area of the park.
Local leaders have broken ground on a project to turn vacant state buildings at the Metropolitan State Hospital in Norwalk into a new mental health facility for Los Angeles County.
A baby born weighing just over a pound is home after spending 285 days in the neonatal intensive care unit at a New Jersey hospital.