Posted on 05/06/2010 11:33:27 AM PDT by JoeProBono
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Two county hospital workers were placed on paid leave after anonymous complaints that they set up a makeshift beauty salon in an intensive care ward for newborns, authorities said.
The two complaints said manicures and eyebrow waxes were given to nurses and doctors in the neonatal intensive care unit at county-run Olive View-UCLA Medical Center.
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OLIVE VIEW/UCLA MEDICAL CENTER Santa Monica, California
How many times do I have to tell ya, the practice of medicine doesn’t pay the bills anymore. I was considering adding a beauty shop or a tattoo parlor in my reception room.
Not that it’s important, but Olive View is in Sylmar, not The People’s Republic of Santa Monica. I used to drive by it daily.
OLIVE VIEW MEDICAL CENTER SYLMAR, CA
I'm licentious licensed.
Entrepreneurship at its best!
The place pretty much got leveled in the 1971 Sylmar quake, got rebuilt and then was shut down for many, many moons again after the Northridge quake 2 decades later.
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