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Reshma Gupta, MD, MSHPM Profile picture
Reshma Gupta, MD, MSHPM
@ReshmaGuptaMD
Internal med doc, humanist, Interim Chief Pop Hlth Accnt Care UnivofCA, CMMI, @RWJClinSch, @CostsofCare, Assoc Prof. Hlth policy, care redesign, ed Views my own
Dec 30, 2020 • 9 tweets • 7 min read
🔹️LA in Crisis🔹️ 1/
"He's dying! Aren't you going to help him?"
Are we deaf to death & screams for help from healthcare community?
@MSNBC @NBCNews @CNN

🔹️5 key hospitals collapsing, LA >10M residents
🔹️Limited oxygen
🔹️EMS diverted >12 hrs
🔹️EMS leaves pts @home 2/ "Are you going to pull the oxygen off and give it to someone else?"
latimes.com/california/sto…

#ThisCouldHaveBeenPrevented
#TraumatizingCommunities
#TraumitizingHealthcareWorkers
Dec 29, 2020 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
Below the I-10 is south LA well known for neighborhoods with less access to care, disparities in health outcomes
🔹️Lower access to hospitals, clinicians, health resources
#socialvulnerability #LAwasprone

@IMPACT4HC @meganranney @lipiroy @FutureDocs @DrLeanaWen @AnishPMahajan One new hospital without a large ED is not enough to address the needs of 750K people.
🔹️1 Bed icon= 500 beds
🔹️1 🚹= 10K people admitted
🔹️1 = 10K people admitted via ED

*pic show history of regional hospital access disparity