There’s more there than meets the eye. CCDH used to be Century City Hospital, a Tenet Healthcare facility. Tenet lost a bundle there and then played hardball with the building owner and lost. They wound up giving the facility back to the landlord. That’s when CCDH came into the picture, and, IIRC, they assumed a massive amount of debt in the transaction.
I’m not sure their business model was sustainable, either. They aimed, from the beginning, at the high end clients, reducing the beds fro over 220 to about 176, and added luxury accommodations, as well. That put them competing dead smack against Cedars Sinai.
It’s not like they didn’t know, going in, that they would have to treat every illegal that walks in, or is brought in by ambulance, for free.
Well, at least there is still Brotman nearby. :)
Without such mandatory ER care you're going to see an awful lot of additional (preventably) permanent injuries and deaths.