Assembly Member: Portable Field Hospitals Worth Saving
"[F]or the last several years, California has maintained three portable field hospitals" capable of "delivering extra capacity, beds and sterile surgical suites" in the event of a natural disaster or emergency, Assembly member Bonnie Lowenthal (D-Long Beach) writes in a Los Angeles Times opinion piece. Legislators are considering "strip[ping] the mobile hospitals of their maintenance funding," but "we should keep the hospitals in working order for at least another year while we more completely weigh the costs and benefits of having them or doing without them," Lowenthal writes.
- "Save California's 'Hospitals in a Box'" (Lowenthal, Los Angeles Times, 6/8).