{"id":304788,"date":"2026-05-07T20:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T20:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/304788\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T20:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T20:01:08","slug":"ambulances-to-stop-transporting-patients-to-anaheim-global-medical-center-orange-county-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/304788\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambulances to stop transporting patients to Anaheim Global Medical Center \u2013 Orange County Register"},"content":{"rendered":"

County public health officials directed ambulances to stop transporting patients to Anaheim Global Medical Center<\/a>, suspending the general hospital\u2019s designation as an emergency receiving center as of Wednesday, May 6.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis suspension applies to patients arriving via the 911 system. The hospital\u2019s emergency department remains open and continues to accept walk\u2011in patients,\u201d OC Health Care Agency Interim EMS Medical Director Almaas A. Shaikh said in a Wednesday statement, which did not include why the ER was closed to ambulances.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt this time, no duration has been established for the suspension,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Anaheim Global, on South Anaheim Boulevard, just a few blocks northeast from Disneyland, is part of a network of \u201cGlobal\u201d brand hospitals in Southern California owned by KPC Health.<\/a><\/p>\n

Representatives of the hospital did not immediately return calls asking for more information.<\/p>\n

KPC Health, headquartered in Corona, also owns Chapman Global in Orange, South Coast Global and Orange County Global in Santa Ana, Hemet Global, Menifee Global and Victor Valley Global medical centers.<\/p>\n

Anaheim Global in February received an \u201cA\u201d hospital safety grade<\/a> from The Leapfrog Group<\/a>, a nonprofit focused on patient safety that assigns grades to general hospitals across the country.<\/p>\n

Anaheim Global is not the first hospital under the KPC Health umbrella to have such a designation suspended.<\/p>\n

Last year, the county instructed emergency dispatchers and paramedics to stop routing stroke patients to Orange County Global Medical Center<\/a> in Santa Ana following state findings of substandard care at the financially troubled hospital. Four months later, the hospital lost its county designation<\/a> as one of nine stroke neurology-receiving centers in the county.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are all fortunate to have significant hospital and emergency capacity in our area, that if one site is impacted, there\u2019s always availability at other sites as well,\u201d Anaheim city spokesperson Mike Lyster said, naming a few nearby hospitals, including \u201cthe primary trauma hospital in our area\u201d UC Health \u2014 Orange (previously UCI Medical Center) near Angel Stadium and about 3.5 miles southeast of Anaheim Global, Providence St. Joseph Hospital in Orange and Providence St. Jude Medical Center in Fullerton.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are all very, very close to us,\u201d Lyster said. \u201cThere\u2019s more than enough capacity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"County public health officials directed ambulances to stop transporting patients to Anaheim Global Medical Center, suspending the general…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,7,179,1570,100,611,4720,136],"class_list":["post-304788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-california","tag-community","tag-health","tag-news","tag-orange-county","tag-public-health","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}