"Despite initially upbeat official reports from hospital officials, King–Harbor found itself under public criticism once again after different stories ran in both the "Los Angeles Times" and "LA Weekly" in late May 2007 citing serious lapses in care, one of which was fatal, at the renamed hospital.In particular, the case of patient Edith Isabel Rodriguez, who bled to death on the emergency room floor after being ignored for forty-five minutes, became a "cause célèbre" of the failures and bureaucratic indifference of King–Harbor as well as political and health leaders in Los Angeles, creating or reinforcing fears that the health care system could not take care of people in a time of dire need.