Carl A Williams

Carl A. Williams was removed as head of hospitals for the County Department of Health Services on Monday in the wake of disclosures revealing fiscal mismanagement and poor conditions in the public facilities. Los Angeles County Health Director Robert C. Gates ousted Williams, who oversaw the county's six public hospitals that serve thousands of mostly poor people each day. Gates said he removed Williams because "we've had many problems in his area of responsibility." Edward J.

Carl A. Williams was removed as head of hospitals for the County Department of Health Services on Monday in the wake of disclosures revealing fiscal mismanagement and poor conditions in the public facilities. Los Angeles County Health Director Robert C. Gates ousted Williams, who oversaw the county's six public hospitals that serve thousands of mostly poor people each day. Gates said he removed Williams because "we've had many problems in his area of responsibility." Edward J.

Los Angeles County Supervisors voted Tuesday to halt a fund-raising effort by county employees who organized a nonprofit corporation and spent $726,000 of public money in a fruitless effort to raise cash for the Department of Health Services. County health officials had created the nonprofit group--the Foundation for Health Services--in an attempt to tap into private philanthropic circles. The officials hoped to raise funds for hospital construction and other public health needs.

Following a last-ditch plea by Los Angeles County health officials, the agency that certifies most of the nation's hospitals on Friday placed Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center on conditional accreditation, temporarily avoiding a serious blow to the facility's residency programs and its public standing.

Los Angeles County has agreed to nearly double the pay of doctors who moonlight at County-USC Medical Center, averting a threatened shutdown Monday of emergency services at General Hospital and Women's Hospital. The chief of emergency medicine, Dr. Gail V. Anderson, and the chief of obstetrics and gynecology, Dr. Daniel R. Mishell Jr.

The rock band Rage Against the Machine is known for its incendiary performances, but when the Los Angeles-based quartet staged a benefit concert for convicted murderer Mumia Abu-Jamal here Thursday, it was the band's politics, not its furious playing, at the heart of a mushrooming controversy. "What can a few cops and politicians do to 20,000 crazy [expletives] like yourselves?" lead singer Zack de la Rocha asked rhetorically near the end of Rage's hourlong set at the Continental Airlines Arena.

A plan to relieve overcrowding in the county obstetrical system has received a significant financial boost from state health officials as well as encouraging response from private hospitals and doctors willing to take greater responsibility for the poor.

Two top doctors at County-USC Medical Center have threatened to shut down emergency services next month unless more money is made available to hire moonlighting physicians to help ease staff shortages. Dr. Gail Anderson, chairman of the department of emergency medicine, has said in a letter to hospital administrators that he may have to shut down the main emergency room's "walk-in" clinic on July 1. Dr.