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Emergency Town Hall Meeting with Attorney General Lockyer* to Save Heart Programs at Daniel Freeman Memorial Hospital
Tenet Healthcare closing
Inglewood clinics on December 5th
Tenet Healthcare
Corporation, the subject of federal and state investigations, will close its
Cardiac Rehabilitation and Congestive Heart Failure programs and Fitness Center
on December 5th. The closures
could result in unnecessary hospitalizations in a community that already suffers
the highest rate of cardiovascular disease in the county. The Town Hall Meeting will bring together
patients, elected officials, faith- and community-based organizations and area
residents to demand that Tenet Healthcare conduct a community planning process.
WHAT: Town Hall Meeting to stop closures at Daniel Freeman
Memorial Hospital with expert panels on Health Disparities & Heart Disease,
Rehab Program Benefits, and the Community Planning Process followed by Q&A
WHO: Moderator:
Reverend James Lawson
Attorney General Bill Lockyer*
State and Federal Elected Representatives
Community Members
WHERE: First United Methodist Church of Inglewood
304 East Spruce Avenue (east of La Brea at Kelso)
Inglewood, CA
90301
WHEN: Wednesday, December 3, 2003 from 6 to 8 pm
Community Health Councils is a
non-profit, community-based health promotion, advocacy and policy organization.
Established in 1992, CHC’s mission is to improve health and increase access to
quality healthcare for uninsured, economically-disadvantaged, and underserved
populations.
*or designee
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