Community Briefing On King – Drew Medical Center King – Drew Update Meeting Sponsored By: LA Health Collaborative & Hospital Association of Southern California May 25, 2005 ~ 2-4:00 P.M.

2 Health Disparities in SPA 6 / South L.A. SPA 6/South LA geographic area has the highest: poverty rates: poverty rates: over 70% of SPA 6 residents live below 200% of poverty ($17,000 for a family of four); andover 70% of SPA 6 residents live below 200% of poverty ($17,000 for a family of four); and 82% of SPA 6 children live below 200% of poverty;82% of SPA 6 children live below 200% of poverty; teen birth rates; teen birth rates; obesity, high blood pressure, cancer mortality, stroke mortality, diabetes mortality and coronary heart disease mortality rates; and obesity, high blood pressure, cancer mortality, stroke mortality, diabetes mortality and coronary heart disease mortality rates; and need of additional ED treatment stations and beds. need of additional ED treatment stations and beds.

3  densities of available specialty physicians;  discharges to available beds ratios (Geographic areas with high number of discharges yet a low number of beds pose a greatest threat of limited access to health care services); and  wait times for both non-urgent and critical ER visits. Sources: Los Angeles County Health Survey, Department of Health Services, Public Health; Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health Program; Dr. Richard Baker, M.D., Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, Assistant Dean, Facts Behind the Headlines; Kurt Salmon and Associations, Phase II: Data Analysis and Report of Findings, DRAFT, Prepared for California HealthCare Foundation (May 5, 2005); E. Richard Brown, UCLA School of Public Health. SPA 6/South Los Angeles has the worst:

4 South LA also ranks at the bottom of other quality of life indicators, including:  the highest homicide rates per 1000 population in the County;  the highest level of job scarcity with 7.2 residents per job, compared to 2.8 residents per job for the City of Los Angeles (2003); and  housing costs are a larger share of income for people residing in SPA 6 (South LA) as compared to the countywide average. Almost 30 percent of renters spend 50 percent or more of their income and over one- third of homeowners spend 35 percent or more of their income on housing. Source: United Way, Tale of Two Cities, 2003 Executive Review; United Way of Greater Los Angeles State of the County Report. (May 2003); Kurt Salmon and Associates, Phase II: Data Analysis and Report of Findings, DRAFT, Prepared for the California HealthCare Foundation (May 5, 2005).

5 King-Drew Medical Center  Established after lack of health care identified as contributing factor to 1965 Watts riots and McCone Commission recommends general teaching hospital be established.  LAC and Drew Postgraduate Medical School contract for provision of health care and educational services and hospital opens in  The King/Drew Complex, comprised of the public hospital and private university, functions as an academic medical institution that provides the university’s medical residents firsthand experience and training at the medical center.

6 King-Drew Medical Center  Serves a 94 square mile area with a multi- cultural population of more than 1.5 million persons;  It employs more than 3,000 people; and  Provides postgraduate training for more than 300 resident physicians, interns and fellows in 14 approved accredited clinic programs.

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8 Types of services offered:  Anesthesiology;  Emergency Medicine;  Internal Medicine;  Neuroscience;  Obstetrics and Gynecology;  Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (Dentistry);  Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery;  Pathology;  Pediatrics*;  Psychiatry; and  Radiology. Source & Notes: Martin Luther King/Drew Medical Center. Our Departments. Accessed at: *including Ambulatory Pediatrics, Adolescent Health and Medicine, Hematology, Infectious Diseases, Critical Care Medicine, Allergy/Immunology, Neonatology, Nephrology, Cardiovascular Health and Medicine, Endocrinology, Child Development and Gastroenterology.