BUSINESS
January 16, 2006 | Roger Vincent, Times Staff Writer
Barlow Respiratory Hospital has a storied past. One of Los Angeles' oldest hospitals, with a charitable legacy of serving low-income patients, the 103-year-old facility on the western edge of Dodger Stadium also is designated by the city as a historic landmark. But the nonprofit hospital's future is uncertain. Its board of directors has decided to sell its pastoral campus to survive.
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October 25, 1998 | CECILIA RASMUSSEN
For those stricken with tuberculosis, his name was a bridge of hope, a way back not only to health, but also to life itself. A soldier of sorts, Dr. Walter Jarvis Barlow came West shortly before the turn of the century, armed with determination to cure himself of what was then the world's most deadly infectious disease and to help others waging a fight against the scourge then known as consumption.
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December 5, 1988 | CAROL McGRAW, Times Staff Writer
It hardly looks like a place one goes to die. Morning sun streams through the picture windows onto the new wood floors as workmen scurry throughout the two-story building, putting finishing touches of peach and light blue paint on the walls. A stained glass window depicting a sea shell is already in place, and a new living room rug suggestive of rippling water waits to be unrolled in front of the brick fireplace.
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October 29, 1988 | STEPHEN BRAUN, Times Staff Writer
An official at Barlow Hospital, a respiratory facility in Elysian Park, angrily denied Friday the existence of plans to expand a 25-bed AIDS hospice that will open next month on the hospital's grounds. John R. Howard, Barlow's chief administrator, said that Michael Weinstein, the head of the Los Angeles AIDS Hospice Foundation, which is opening the 25-bed hospice in December, had no authority to make plans for an expansion funded by state revenue bonds.
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October 28, 1988 | JERRY GILLAM and STEPHEN BRAUN, Times Staff Writers
A $5-million, state-guaranteed revenue bond issue to finance construction of four Los Angeles AIDS hospices--where terminally ill patients can go to die with dignity--was preliminarily approved Thursday by the California Health Facilities Financing Authority.
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October 27, 1988
Leaders of the Los Angeles County AIDS Commission have agreed to meet with directors of the Barlow Hospital to consider ways in which the hospital can help with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) pandemic. It is yet another indication of the constructive leadership that both the hospital and the commission have provided.