Garrett Therolf reported in The Los Angeles Times that 19 Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital employees were fired and 45 others disciplined after it was revealed that employees had been able to stay on staff despite the fact that background checks indicated past crimes that would make them ineligible for employment.

In July 2008 The Los Angeles Times reported that 16 employees at Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital’s outpatient clinic in Los Angeles were suspended after it was discovered that they had serious crimes in their past or had lied about their criminal history.  In response to this issue, Los Angeles County Supervisor Yvonne Burke said the county should reevaluate its process of conducting criminal background checks for all of its employees to make sure that they occur with sufficient regularity and that they are acted upon.

Source: Garrett Therolf, “King-Harbor hospital to fire 19 over criminal records,” Los Angeles Times, October 29, 2008, http://articles.latimes.com/2008/oct/29/local/me-king29.  Garrett Therolf, “County suspends clinic workers;
The 16 King-Harbor employees were found to have histories of criminal offenses,” Los Angeles Times, July 16, 2008, p. 1.