State blasts Orange County Global for troubling practices that endangered patients

State blasts Orange County Global for troubling practices that endangered patients

Orange County Global Medical Center, one of three trauma centers serving a county of 3.2 million people, was castigated by state regulators for substandard care and practices that led to at least one patient death and put hundreds of others at grave risk, the Southern California News Group has learned. An investigation in February by the California Department of Public Health paints a troubling picture of the 282-bed hospital in Santa Ana that i…