Charlotte Thrash, an LVN at the MLK-MACC, was in San Francisco Sept. 18 to help jumpstart the reopening of King Hospital. Thrash joined Los Angeles County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas and Assembly Speaker Karen Bass to urge the University of California Regents to partner with LA County to reopen the hospital and restore the full complement of medical care to South Los Angeles.
Thrash is a 36-year veteran of the hospital. She has worked in almost every critical care sector of the hospital, including the emergency department. Thrash started as a Nursing Attendant just two years after the hospital opened in the 1970s.
Her commitment to the area and the community runs deep, she told National Public Radio in an interview with a radio reporter.
“I remember when there was no hospital in our neighborhood,” Thrash said. “The closure devastated our community and my co-workers once again and I will help reopen it. We need this hospital.”
Photo above: Charlotte Thrash, LVN at MLK-MACC in South LA, is interviewed by NPR reporter Julie Small.