PRESS RELEASE

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Date: Saturday, October 18, 2008

Time: 10:00 am

Location: Olympia Medical Center 5900 W. Olympic Blvd. • Los Angeles, CA 90036

Contact: Melvin R. Snell (323) 610-3324

Hospital Protest over the effects of California Medical Injury Compensation Act (MICRA) on innocent victims of hospital negligence.

A group of community activists, Reverend K.W. Tullus of Reverend Al Sharpton’s National Action Network along with activists Melvin R. Snell founder of L.A. Humanities Group Foundation and Denyse Walls, former Executive Director of the ACLU of South Carolina will stage a live protest in front of the Olympia Medical Center to draw attention to the hospital’s negligence and the California’s laws which allow them to escape making restitution to victims.

A series of tort reform laws enacted in 1975, permit hospitals to commit negligence, malpractice and be financially insulated from liability. George Johnson, a veteran residential real estate appraiser, nearly lost his life at the hand of the uncaring Olympia Medical Center nursing staff. He is crippled and unable to work because of the hospital’s actions. The hospital is expected to use the California 1975 tort reform laws to escape responsibility for its negligence.

Like the atrocity of May 9, 2007 at King Drew where Edith Rodriquez died on the emergency room floor, and where intervention by emergency room patrons who called police and other emergency personnel to help a victim ignored by hospital staff, George Johnson managed to escape death because he reached out to his sister by cell phone. But for his sister calling George’s doctor he would have died.

For further information contact:
Melvin R. Snell
L.A. Humanities Group Foundation
(323) 610-3324

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