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Mercury General Corp.

Mergent's Dividend AchieversVolume 2, Issue 2 p. 186-186 U.S. Company Report Mercury General Corp.† First published: 22 April 2005 https://doi.org/10.1002/div.2357 † Contact: : George Joseph — Chmn., C.E.O. Address: : 4484 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90010 Web Site: : www.mercuryinsurance.com AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Abstract Insurance (MIC: 8.2 SIC: 331 NAIC: 24126) Mercury General, through its subsidiaries, engages primarily in writing all risk classifications of automobile insurance in a number of states, principally in California. Co. offers automobile policyholders the following types of coverage: bodily injury liability, underinsured and uninsured motorist, personal injury protection, property damage liability, comprehensive, collision and other hazards specified in the policy. Co. sells its policies through independent agents in California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, New York, Texas, Oklahoma, New Jersey and Virginia. In addition, Co. writes other lines of insurance in various states, including mechanical breakdown and homeowners insurance. Volume2, Issue2Spring 2005Pages 186-186 RelatedInformation

The Commission's report and its implications for psychiatry.

The Commission's report and its implications for psychiatry.

Clinicopathologic Case Report: Progressive Aphasia in a 77-Year-Old Man

Clinicopathologic Case Report: Progressive Aphasia in a 77-Year-Old Man

Clinical Computing: A Web-Based Data Management System to Improve Care for Depression in a Multicenter Clinical Trial

Clinical Computing: A Web-Based Data Management System to Improve Care for Depression in a Multicenter Clinical Trial

A web-based data management system to improve care for depression in a multicenter clinical trial.

A web-based data management system to improve care for depression in a multicenter clinical trial.

Overview

Director of Research, Heart Institute, Good Samaritan Hospital and Professor of Medicine, Section of Cardiology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA Correspondence and requests for reprints to Robert A. Kloner, MD, PhD, Heart Institute, Good Samaritan Hospital, 1225 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90017, USA. Tel: +1 213 977 4040 or 977 4050; fax: +1 213 977 4107 e-mail: [email protected]

Datapoints: The time course of treatment costs among patients with severe mental illness.

Back to table of contents Previous article Next article ColumnsFull AccessDatapoints: The Time Course of Treatment Costs Among Patients With Severe Mental IllnessAlexander S. Young, M.D., M.S.H.S., Kanika Kapur, Ph.D., and Dennis Murata, M.S.W.Alexander S. YoungSearch for more papers by this author, M.D., M.S.H.S., Kanika KapurSearch for more papers by this author, Ph.D., and Dennis MurataSearch for more papers by this author, M.S.W.Published Online:1 Jan 2001https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.52.1.21AboutSectionsPDF/EPUB ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InEmail Capitation presents unique problems in the severely mentally ill population, because treatment costs can run up to $125,000 per year. The financial viability of provider organizations can be threatened if they are assigned a disproportionate number of high-cost patients. Also, organizations can experience a strong incentive to undertreat or avoid high-cost patients.One approach to decreasing undesirable incentives has been to adjust payments according to the risk of high future costs. A better understanding of the temporal course of treatment costs could inform contract design and help providers understand what to expect under risk contracts.We analyzed data on treatment costs incurred by the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health from 1988 to 1994. We studied 1,283 adults with severe mental illness who had received treatment for at least three of the past five years and who had annual treatment costs that averaged more than $20,000 per year.The mean±SD annual treatment cost for these patients was $44,910± $25,489. As Figure 1 shows, 69 percent of costs resulted from hospital use and 21 percent from chronic care facilities. We inspected treatment costs for a subsample of patients for the entire five years. No recurring patterns were discernible. Indeed, the most striking features of the data were large changes in costs from year to year and numerous years with no treatment costs in between years with high costs. Figure 2 presents the average year-to-year change in annual treatment costs for each patient during the five years. The mean±SD change in annual treatment costs from one year to the next was $38,685±$37,364.Developing useful risk adjustment models for the severely mentally ill population will be challenging and will likely require data on clinical predictors of hospitalization. Until substantial risk adjustment is possible, policy makers using capitation should strongly consider blended payment schemes that combine risk adjustment with mechanisms such as corridors of risk or partial fee-for-service payments (1).AcknowledgmentsThis research was supported by the Department of Veterans Affairs and the UCLA-Rand Research Center on Managed Care for Psychiatric Disorders.Dr. Young is associate director of the Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center in the Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Integrated Service Network 22, 11301 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90073. Dr. Kapur is an associate economist at Rand in Santa Monica, California. Mr. Murata is district chief of the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health. Harold Alan Pincus, M.D., and Terri L. Tanielian, M.A., are editors of this column.Figure 1. Sources of treatment costs for 1,283 adults with severe mental illness treated in the public sectorFigure 2. Distribution of year-to-year change in treatment costs for 1,283 adults with severe mental illness treated in the public sectorReference1. Newhouse JP: Risk adjustment: where are we now? Inquiry 35:122-131, 1998Google Scholar FiguresReferencesCited byDetailsCited ByCapitation of Public Mental Health Services in Colorado: A Five-Year Follow-Up of System-Level EffectsJoan R. Bloom, Ph.D., Huihui Wang, Ph.D., Soo Hyang Kang, Neal T. Wallace, Ph.D., Jenny K. Hyun, Ph.D., and Teh-wei Hu, Ph.D.1 February 2011 | Psychiatric Services, Vol. 62, No. 2Community Mental Health Journal, Vol. 41, No. 2Identifying and Reducing Barriers to Reunification for Seriously Mentally Ill Parents Involved in Child Welfare Cases3 May 2018 | Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services, Vol. 85, No. 1 Volume 52Issue 1 January 2001Pages 21-21 Metrics PDF download History Published online 1 January 2001 Published in print 1 January 2001

Negotiating Rehabilitation Success: A Veterans Affairs-Community Partnership

Crystal Barker is a restorative nurse in the rehabilitation ward, Joan Brosnan is associate director of Community Care, Donna Henriques is a staff nurse in the rehabilitation ward, and A. Wassen El Shaied is a rehabilitation social worker at the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System. Address correspondence to Joan Brosnan, Associate Director of Community Care, 10H5, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, 11301 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90073.

The sharer.

On Being a Doctor19 October 1999The SharerKarl Lorenz, MDKarl Lorenz, MDLos Angeles, CA 90073 (Lorenz)Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-131-8-199910190-00014 SectionsAboutFull TextPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail The shadowy, dark head, like mine, seemed to nod imperceptibly above the ghostly gray of my sleeping suit. It was, in the night, as though I had been faced by my own reflection in the depths of a somber and immense mirror.Joseph Conrad, The Secret SharerA wall of medals, like multicolored chain mail, clothed Master Gunnery Sergeant's bulging pectorals. He was polish and shine from his balding pate to his oil-slick black uniform shoes. The creases in his pants and shirt were as sharp as a knife's edge and as freshly pressed as a groom's going-away suit. His few ... Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Los Angeles, CA 90073 (Lorenz)Corresponding Author: Karl Lorenz, MD, Department of Internal Medicine, Veterans Affairs Medical Center West Los Angeles, 11303 Wilshire Boulevard, Code 111G, Los Angeles, CA 90073; e-mail, [email protected]edu. For reprint orders in quantities exceeding 100, please contact the Reprints Coordinator; phone, 215-351-2657; e-mail, [email protected]acponline.org. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetailsSee AlsoThe Sharer Morton Glanz Metrics Cited ByThe SharerMorton Glanz, MD, MS 19 October 1999Volume 131, Issue 8Page: 625-626KeywordsArmed forcesErectile dysfunctionMemoryRenal diseasesResidencySurgerySweatThoraxWheelchairsWilderness Issue Published: 19 October 1999 CopyrightCopyright © 1999 by American College of Physicians. All Rights Reserved.PDF DownloadLoading ...

On the Road

On Being a Doctor17 August 1999On the RoadNancy L. Greengold, MD, MBANancy L. Greengold, MD, MBALos Angeles, CA 90048 (Greengold)Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-131-4-199908170-00011 SectionsAboutFull TextPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail Beanie Baby toys were selling for $5.95 at the hotel gift shop where I had just checked in. A customer was pawing through the koala bears, giraffes, and monkeys. “Ooh,” she cooed, “You have cocker spaniels; I've been looking everywhere for cocker spaniels!”“Those are $12.95,” said the cashier, ringing up my Diet Coke.“But they're smaller than the kangaroos—are you sure they cost more?” pleaded the Beanie Baby aficionado.“Yep. Those are cocker spaniels. Everybody wants a cocker spaniel.”“Excuse me,” I interjected, “is there an exercise room in the hotel? I just got off the plane from Los ... Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Los Angeles, CA 90048 (Greengold)Corresponding Author: Nancy L. Greengold, MD, MBA, Zynx Health, Inc., 9100 Wilshire Boulevard, East Tower, Suite 655, Beverly Hills, CA 90212; e-mail, [email protected]com. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics 17 August 1999Volume 131, Issue 4Page: 307-308KeywordsChartsFellowshipsHealth careHealth services researchLaboratory testsMedical staffResidencyRunningShinglesSpleen Issue Published: 17 August 1999 Copyright & PermissionsCopyright © 1999 by American College of Physicians. All Rights Reserved.PDF downloadLoading ...

Immune function, mood, and perceived burden among caregivers participating in a psychoeducational intervention.

ust as the number of older adults in the population has been increasing, the number of persons acting as the primary caregiver for an elderly patient with dementia has also grown (1). The primary caregiving role is most often filled by the spouse of a patient with dementia, and recent studies have shown that spouse caregivers are subject to symptoms of clinical depression (2,3) and compromised immune function (4–6). Thus far, psychoeducational programs targeting caregivers have been shown either to lessen depression, anxiety, and perceived burden or to have no effect on these variables (3). In the pilot study described here, women who were the primary caregiver for a spouse with dementia participated in an eight-week structured psychoeducational intervention designed to improve psychological and immune function. The study participants completed measures of mood, anxiety, perceived burden, and immune function at baseline, at the end of the intervention, and at follow-up one month after the end of the intervention.

Introduction: Changing Trends in Antiarrhythmic Therapy: Worldwide Experience With Class III Agents

T approaches to cardiac arrhythmias continue to change rapidly, as indicated by the recent acceptance of a number of revolutionary concepts. These include (1) the recognition that time-honored antiarrhythmic drugs that act essentially by slowing cardiac conduction (class I agents) may increase mortality despite suppressing cardiac arrhythmias. The result has been a shift to agents that act largely by prolonging cardiac repolarization (class III agents); (2) the realization that radiofrequency catheter ablation may produce permanent cures in many forms of arrhythmia, especially those of supraventricular origin; and (3) the introduction and refinement of the implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD), which has the potential for prolonging survival by terminating ventricular tachycardia and fibrillation (VT/VF). The changing trends in the use of pharmacologic agents and advances in catheter ablation and ICD technology are profoundly impacting how physicians are deciding to terminate and/or prevent specific types of arrhythmia, not only to reduce or eliminate symptoms but also to prolong survival by reducing the probability of arrhythmic death. It has, however, become increasingly clear that survival in patients with arrhythmias cannot always be measured accurately by quantifying presumed arrhythmic deaths. The outcome that best indicates improved survival on antiarrhythmic therapy is the decrease in all-cause or total mortality, now the decisive endpoint of all mortality trials, whether they involve ICDs or antiarrhythmic drugs. For the most part, progress in antiarrhythmic drug therapy has been driven by data generated by randomized, controlled From the Division of Cardiology and the Department of Medicine, Veterans Affairs Medical Center of West Los Angeles, and the Department of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California. Address for reprints: Bramah N. Singh, MD, PhD, Division of Cardiology (111E), Veterans Affairs Medical Center of West Los Angeles, 11301 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90073.

A Concrete Island: Hisaye Yamamoto's Postwar Los Angeles

1950 HISAYE YAMAMOTO WROTE A SHORT STORY called Bus, its main character a young Japanese American woman resettling in Los Angeles after the wartime internment camps. In this deceptively modest tale of a bus ride down Wilshire Boulevard, Yamamoto sharply critiques postwar optimism and modernity. With irony and care, she exposes Los Angeles' racial complexities and the buried costs of World War II. Wilshire Boulevard's stark architecture obscures a recent past most city residents would rather forget.

Categories for the Description of Works of Art. Hypertext document on diskette for Windows or Macintosh. Santa Monica, Calif.: Getty AHIP, 1996. Version 1.0 available free of charge by request to aitf@getty.edu (subject line: Categories) or by mail to AITF, c/o the Getty Information Institute, 401 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 1100, Santa Monica, CA 90401. - Visual Resources — an International

Categories for the Description of Works of Art. Hypertext document on diskette for Windows or Macintosh. Santa Monica, Calif.: Getty AHIP, 1996. Version 1.0 available free of charge by request to aitf@getty.edu (subject line: Categories) or by mail to AITF, c/o the Getty Information Institute, 401 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 1100, Santa Monica, CA 90401. - Visual Resources — an International Journal of Documentation, volume XI, numbers 3-4, 1996. Special Issue edited by Murtha Baca and Patricia Harpring. Available from International Publishers Distributor, 820 Town Center Drive, Langhorne, PA 19047 U.S.A. - Volume 21 Issue 3

The Petersen Automotive Museum

THE PETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM RUDI V O L T I Whenever possible, a museum’s site should reflect its subject. The Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles is admirable in this regard. The apparent front of the building, a converted department store, is situated on Wilshire Boulevard (fig. 1), but its main entrance is in the rear, adjacent to a multistory parking lot. This is as it should be, for the stretch of Wilshire Boulevard on which it stands is, in Reyner Banham’s phrase, the nation’s first “linear downtown.” A cre­ ation of the automobile in the 1920s, Wilshire Boulevard’s “Miracle Mile” consisted of an assortment of department stores and smaller shops with car accessibility and free parking as their key attractions. The Petersen Automotive Museum opened on June 11, 1994, fi­ nancially endowed by a county bond issue and a $15 million grant from Robert Petersen. There is a close relationship between the mu­ seum’s subjects and the principal benefactor, for the Petersen fortune rests on a publishing empire that began with Hot Rod and now in­ cludes Car Craft, Motor Trend, and Motorcyclist. Automobiles are the central characters in the museum, but to a certain extent they serve as props in a larger tableau. The museum’s goal is not to display vast rows of significant automobiles, but to tell the story of southern California’s development as the first automobile-based metropolis. There is very little about the technical development of the automo­ bile, and nothing about its manufacture; instead, the museum’s dis­ plays highlight how we travel, live, consume, have fun, and get into trouble in the age of the automobile. The first floor of the museum contains seventeen dioramas that depict such scenes as the workshop where the first car was built in Los Angeles (by a young Carl Breer, who went on to become one of the main designers of the advanced but ill-fated Chrysler Airflow). (See figs. 2 and 3.) Other exhibits show how architecture and spatial patterns have reflected the dominance of automobile-based transpor­ tation: a 1920s bungalow with a new Willys-Knight in the driveway; a replica of southern California vernacular architecture, a greasy-spoon Dr. Volti is professor of sociology at Pitzer College, where his course offerings include Cars and Culture.© 1995 by the Society for the History of Technology. All rights reserved. 0040-165X/95/3603-0011501.00 646 The Petersen Automotive Museum 647 Fig. 1.—The Petersen Automotive Museum building is a converted department store on Los Angeles’s Wilshire Boulevard. (All photos by Lee Furon.) café in the shape of a dog; a 1950s drive-in restaurant; an early supermarket fronted by a parking lot. Visitors walk past and through these exhibits, and in the process are drawn into them. In the course of their travels through the exhibits, viewers come on a variety of scenes, not all of them didactic; one of the most eye-catching is a re-creation of a classic movie scene in which wax effigies of Laurel and Hardy sit in a Model T Ford that has been crunched between two trolley cars (fig. 4). For those who care to reflect on the deeper meaning of these scenes, there are smaller exhibits that show regional population densities correlated with established transportation corri­ dors, the evolution of the billboard, and the emergence of the garage as a prime residential feature. Ajarring note is provided by a wrecked Toyota Supra (one of three Japanese cars on display) below a sign noting, among other things, that 2,164,132 people were killed in au­ tomobile accidents from 1923 to 1982, and that despite major im­ provements in the safety of automotive travel, five people die in car accidents every hour in the United States. The second floor is more conventional in that it is populated by automobiles and little else. Here the car buff can revel in the hard­ ware with no historical or sociological distractions. A large number of cars are on display, but not so many as to numb the viewer. Every­ one will have his or her own favorites; the scope and quality of the...

Candida parapsilosis Prosthetic Joint Infection Unresponsive to Treatment with Fluconazole

Journal Article Candida parapsilosis Prosthetic Joint Infection Unresponsive to Treatment with Fluconazole Get access Alan White, Alan White Department of Medicine, Sepulveda Veterans Affairs Medical Center, UCLA/San Fernando Valley Program, Sepuheda, and UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Matthew Bidwell Goetz Matthew Bidwell Goetz Department of Medicine, Sepulveda Veterans Affairs Medical Center, UCLA/San Fernando Valley Program, Sepuheda, and UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California Reprints or correspondence: Dr. Matthew Bidwell Goetz, Infectious Diseases (111F), Veterans Affairs Medical Center, West Los Angeles, 11301 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90073. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Clinical Infectious Diseases, Volume 20, Issue 4, April 1995, Pages 1068–1069, https://doi.org/10.1093/clinids/20.4.1068 Published: 01 April 1995

The Case For Letting Malibu Burn

Late August to early October is the infernal season in Los Angeles. Downtown is usually shrouded in acrid yellow smog while heat waves billow down Wilshire Boulevard. Outside the air-conditioned bank skyscrapers, homeless people huddle miserably in every shadow. A few blocks away, in poorly ventilated garment sweatshops, thousands of operadoras pant for breath in front of their sewing machines. Irritable bosses, their dress-shirts stained with sweat, bark endless orders in Spanish, Armenian, Korean, or Cantonese. Across the Harbor Freeway, the overcrowded tenements of the Westlake district-Los Angeles's Spanish Harlem-are intolerable ovens. Suffocating in their tiny rooms, immigrant families flee to the fire escapes, stoops, and sidewalks. Anxious mothers swab their babies' foreheads with water while older children, eyes stinging from the smog, cry for palletas, the flavored cones of shaved ice sold by pushcart vendors. Shirtless young men-some with formidable jail-made biceps and mural-size tattoos of the Virgin of Guadaloupe across their backs-monopolize the shade of tienda awnings. Amidst hundreds of acres of molten asphalt and concrete there is scarcely a weed, much less a lawn or tree. Thirty miles away, the Malibu coast-where hyperbole meets the surf-basks in altogether different weather. The temperature is 85 (twenty degrees cooler than Downtown) and the cobalt blue sky is

Los Angeles and the anti-tradition of the suburban city

An anti-urban image of Los Angeles that projected the city as a sprawling suburban expanse of automobile freeways and smog without a downtown skyline was broadcast in the national press after the First World War, climaxing in 1960. The national emotional response to the lack of urban order in Los Angeles was triggered by the night view from the Hollywood Hills and realized in the imagery of Los Angeles as “Six suburbs in search of a city”. In fact, the night view of the Los Angeles Basin defined the emergent urban axis of Wilshire Boulevard, expanding west from the downtown district along the elite corridor to Beverly Hills and the Pacific shore. The result of the continued development of both Wilshire Boulevard and the downtown district was a revision of the anti-urban imagery, signaled by high-rise construction and increasing urban density after 1960. Recent critical imagery of Los Angeles appears to be based on deep-rooted notions of traditional urban density and Old World pre-industrial city structure. The result is a continuing evaluation of Los Angeles in the national press as a terrae incognitae when compared with New York City as the traditional city prototype of the oikoumene.

Cholinesterase inhibitors: strategies for their early development: Cutler Neal R., M.D., California Clinical Trials, 8500 Wilshire Boulevard, Beverly Hills, California 90211, USA

Cholinesterase inhibitors: strategies for their early development: Cutler Neal R., M.D., California Clinical Trials, 8500 Wilshire Boulevard, Beverly Hills, California 90211, USA

Some Guidelines for Mediators of Intercultural Disputes

Negotiation JournalVolume 6, Issue 4 p. 383-389 Some Guidelines for Mediators of Intercultural Disputes Jan Jung-Min Sunoo, Jan Jung-Min Sunoo Jan Jung-Min Sunoo is a commissioner of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, 4221 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 210, Los Angeles, Calif. 90010.Search for more papers by this author Jan Jung-Min Sunoo, Jan Jung-Min Sunoo Jan Jung-Min Sunoo is a commissioner of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, 4221 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 210, Los Angeles, Calif. 90010.Search for more papers by this author First published: October 1990 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1571-9979.1990.tb00592.xCitations: 5AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume6, Issue4October 1990Pages 383-389 RelatedInformation