Two of the six who survived the avalanche were taken to hospitals.
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Michael McGough,
Sacbee.com,
22 Feb. 2026
In reality, the child was an emergency; federal law requires safety-net hospitals to treat such cases under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, and any stabilizing treatment would have been covered.
In addition, the California Department of Public Health revoked the licenses of more than 280 hospices over the past two years and has identified about 300 more hospices under review for possible license revocation, according to the governor’s office.
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Linh Tat,
Daily News,
8 Feb. 2026
Scores of providers sprang up along a corridor stretching west from the San Gabriel Valley through the San Fernando Valley, which now has the highest concentration of hospices in the nation.
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