Article: UP & COMERS 2009; Kamille Wright.(News)(Occupation overview)

Byline: Rebecca Vesely

Sometimes in life, you have to take risks. That's what Kamille Wright told herself four years ago, when at age 36 she left a secure job at Kings County Hospital Center, New York, to work for one of the most troubled hospitals in the nation: Martin Luther King/Drew Medical Center in Los Angeles.

"Every experience I had in healthcare led me up to that moment, Wright, who just turned 40, says. "I felt, this is it. This is the place I need to be.

Wright was part of a last-ditch effort to turn around the troubled hospital, which was facing the loss of its CMS contract after years of mismanagement and poor patient care. She ...

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