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Feb. 5, 2008

Centinela Hospital Rises From the Dead

Von Crockett, Centinela Hospital’s chief executive officer, said the previous owners “were not able to go after the health plans because they didn’t have the deep pockets that Prime Healthcare does.”

By Evan George
Daily Journal Staff Writer
This article appears on Page 1.

      LOS ANGELES - Only last year, the emergency room at Centinela Hospital Medical Center seemed as good as dead.
      Deep debt, rising costs and a flood of incoming patients from nearby defunct emergency rooms were slowly killing the Inglewood hospital.
      Administrators announ...

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