Talk:Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science

edit request (February 25)
Hello, please see below for my latest submission for CDU's wikipedia page. Looking forward to receiving feedback. Thanks. Chantelcartercdu (talk) 23:11, 25 February 2020 (UTC)

'''I have updated the phrasing re: the history of the MEDEX program. Please note that University has been referred to as "Drew" in both colloquial and official capacities throughout its 50+ year history, thus the phrasing, "MEDEX students at Drew." '''

The Physician Assistant program at the Charles R. Drew Postgraduate Medical School (now "CDU") as MEDEX in 1971. It was one of the first MEDEX programs to open in the state of California.

MEDEX students at Drew received their instruction from physician faculty at UCLA until March 1973, when they moved to what was then known as the Martin Luther King, Jr. General Hospital in Watts. The physician assistant program returned to the University in August 2016 after a five year closure period that began in 2011.

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'''I have added the requested page number to citation #5 - the information is stated on page one and address various tags. I'm at a loss as to how to word the significance of the return of residency training.'''

In September 2017, the L.A. County Board of Supervisors voted to allocate $800,000 to CDU to fund two new residency training programs in Family Medicine and Psychiatry. The funds were made available through a Pre-Medical School Affiliation Agreement signed between L.A. County and CDU in October 2017. A Medical School Affiliation Agreement between L.A. County Health Agency and CDU provides the programs with support of up to $14.6 million until 2023. Residents began their programs in Family Medicine and Psychiatry in July 2018, meaning that the University offered residency training as part of its curriculum for the first time since the closure of the former King-Drew Medical Center, and consequently the University's own training programs, in 2007.

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I have updated the HCD and California Healthline citations and added subheads to the section per the suggestions of Spintendo.

History of affiliation
Both Martin Luther King Jr. Hospital and Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science sprang from the same social inequity that caused the Watts Riot in 1965: a lack of accessible health care in South Los Angeles. Originally slated to be named the Los Angeles Southeast County Southeast General Hospital, the medical institution became the Martin Luther King Jr. Hospital following the civil rights leader's assassination in 1968. In 1982, it was renamed the “Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center” in recognition of the role that the neighboring medical school played in training the hospital’s physicians.

Loss of accreditation, rebranding efforts
The relationship between the two institutions continued for the next two decades. However, the university and the hospital dealt with serious problems at the outset of the 21st century: the hospital struggled to remedy the fallout that resulted from years of gross medical malpractice and avoidable patient deaths, while the University struggled with mismanagement, as well as a number of threats to its accreditation status and overall standing as an institution. The hospital was forced by the L.A. County Board of Supervisors to undergo a radical restructuring plan beginning in late 2006, which reduced its number of beds from 537 to 42 and terminated its relationship with CDU as its teaching hospital.

As part of the restructuring, management of the hospital was transferred to another county hospital, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, and King/Drew became Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital in October 2006. Also in October 2006, the national Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education informed CDU officials that it planned to revoke the university's accreditation due to the hospital's failure to pass federal inspection which led to the loss of eligibility for Medicare funding. As a result, the University discontinued all of its residency programs. On March 6, 2007, CDU officials announced that they would sue Los Angeles County for $125 million for breach of contract, claiming that the restructuring of the hospital had gutted the University.

In June 2007, the school began an 18-month rebranding effort aimed at helping the public understand that CDU was no longer associated with King-Harbor and its continuing ordeals. In September 2009, their 2007 lawsuit was settled with an agreement under which the county would rent space to the university on favorable terms and the county and university would work together toward the reopening of MLK Hospital.

Opening of Martin Luther King Community Hospital
In 2015, a new and private nonprofit inpatient facility, Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital, was opened on the county-owned site of the King-Harbor Hospital. Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science has no teaching or operational ties to the new hospital.


 * I don't see too many issues with the text as it is, it looks very good (reference wise and grammar, etc.). The only issue I see is that there is some confusion in the difference between Drew and MLK. I placed those comments in the middle of the proposal because I wanted to understate them as questions that I had, as a reader, while reading the text up to that point in the article. Please feel free to read them. Perhaps when this text is integrated into the article, it will become more clear, but maybe perhaps a better description of how and why these two facilities merged (I want to say they merged, but actually I'm not even sure that's what they did, or if they just changed names). Please take a look at the feedback I wrote, and then feel free to respond with any ideas you have on it. I look forward to hearing them. To re-iterate, the only issues I have are with the section on Drew and MLK (the History and Affiliation section). The loss of accreditation section is much more clearer, although because it deals with these two facilities that I had the questions about, it's still fuzzy. Be sure to change the template's answer parameter from ans=y to ans=n when ready with your reply. Thank you! Regards, Spintendo  09:56, 29 February 2020 (UTC)


 * Just to follow up here, I'm going to go ahead and implement the requested changes for all the sections where the text was not an issue (which amounts to $1/2$ of the entire request). The only areas where changes will be held back will be from the area I mentioned above, where I still had questions about the relationship between the one facility and the other. Still awaiting feedback from those questions. Again, thank you for your help! Regards, Spintendo  13:50, 3 March 2020 (UTC)