Questions have emerged about whether Olive View-UCLA Medical Center in Sylmar has continued treating critically ill babies long after California officials said the hospital lacked the doctors to do so properly and told the facility to transfer such high-risk patients. State officials said they had downgraded the hospital's neonatal intensive care unit in late 2008. Since then, Olive View has been required to transfer babies needing a ventilator for more than four hours to a hospital that could provide a higher level of care, according to California Department of Health Care Services officials.
