1. 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. 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. 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: 2002-03 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. 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. 2003 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. 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 1972.  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. 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.

7. 7 King-Drew Medical Center

8. 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: http://www.dhs.co.la.ca.us/mlk/departments.htm. http://www.dhs.co.la.ca.us/mlk/departments.htm *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.