On what street in Los Angeles, California, is the Central Receiving Hospital at which Robert Francis Kennedy died the next day after Sirhan Sirhan shot him?
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Last updated Jun 01 2021.
He was, however, soon moved to Good Samaritan, where he did later die. That hospital is at 1225 Wilshire Blvd. http://tinyurl.com/wilshereBlvd maps.google.com/maps?num=20&hl=en&safe=off&rls=GGIH,GGIH:20
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Response last updated by gtho4 on Mar 06 2018.
Dec 29 2007, 9:18 PM
Central Receiving Hospital was located at 1401 W. 6th Street at the intersection of 6th & Loma Drive. Unfortunately that building has since been demolished to make room for the new Rampart Division police station, which now uses the same street address the hospital used.
Central Receiving Hospital was built, owned and operated by the LA city police department. LAPD had a long history if running receiving hospitals and ambulance services, dating back to the late 1800s.. The police department recognized that hospital ERs weren't usually staffed 24/7 by doctors, as ER doctors were simply called-in when needed. The department saw too many city police & firefighters die waiting for care. While the ERs & ambulances were intended to treat police and fire personnel, they often treated civilians. It was a terrific community outreach program.
The LAPD started with an ER in the back of the Georgia Street police station downtown. The department eventually ran 7 such ERs & ambulances out of other police stations, serving central LA. The harbor area was covered by the LAFD, and the San Fernando Valley was covered by a combination of LAFD and private ambulance contracts.
By the mid 1950s ambulances could move quickly enough to respond to a single central ER, so Central Receiving Hospital was built. A fleet of brown modular ambulances responded from Central Receiving, manned by cops and LAPD civilian employees. Central Receiving Hospital was a 2-story 40 bed facility, with 20 beds upstairs strictly for police & fire personnel and 20 beds downstairs which could be used by civilian patients as space allowed. Cops & firefighters always took priority.
By the early 1970s private hospitals had doctors in their ERs 24/7 so the Central Receiving ER seemed redundant. The hospital was converted to be used for fire & police employment physicals, as well as an outpatient facility for long term physical therapy and the like. The fleet of brown ambulances was transferred to the fire department, along with most of the ambulance attendants & drivers.
Central Receiving Hospital stopped seeing emergencies in 1970, and was demolished in 2005.
Specific to Robert Kennedy, he was believed to have arrived at Central Receiving Hospital in full arrest but ER personnel were able to revive him. As was pointed out by another poster, after being stabilized Robert Kennedy was transferred to Good Samaritan Hospital for definitive neuro care. Good Sam was located virtually across the street from Central Receiving Hospital, so it was a very short ride. Robert Kennedy only spent about 30 minutes at Central Receiving Hospital, and died at Good Sam the following afternoon.
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