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  • CA: Police to stop using Taser guns at troubled hospital (King/Drew Medical Center)

    12/24/2004 9:09:10 AM PST · by NormsRevenge · 7 replies · 1,029+ views
    Sac Bee ^ | 12/24/04 | AP - Los Angeles
    LOS ANGELES (AP) - Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center will stop using police officers to subdue agitated psychiatric patients, responding to threats from federal regulators to pull the hospital's funding. Last week, the hospital received its second warning in six months about Los Angeles County police using Taser stun guns to stop aggressive mental patients. The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said the county-owned hospital was putting patients in "immediate jeopardy" by not first trying less extreme methods. Hospital officials told the Medicare agency on Wednesday that they would begin replacing police with mental health workers to...