Andy Wrote:
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> The Santa Fe Hospital is still standing in Boyle
> Heights. It has been featured in many of the
> Emergency Room episodes and in fact is being by a
> movie production center. The Santa Fe Memorial
> Hospital Assn. sold to property to a group that
> tried running a Hospital and it failed and is now
> held by this production company.
> The railroads were the only medical care available
> in the early days of the RR's opening up the West.
> Every employee had to pay dues to the association
> for which there was basicly free medical care as
> previously. With the unions seeking better care
> and care that could be provided at home the other
> plans that are part of the collective bargining
> agreements came into being. This was for the
> better for the employee as they could seek medical
> care at home instead of going to the Company
> hospital for procedures. I know of many instances
> where employees, lets say in Needles had to go to
> LA for surgery, not a happy state of affairs for
> the family. Andy


What Movie/TV shows has this been in?