Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital
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Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital, also known as MLK-LA, is a 131-bed public community hospital in the unincorporated Willowbrook neighborhood of southern Los Angeles County, California, just outside of the Los Angeles city limits.[1] It was planned and designed to especially serve the surrounding South Los Angeles communities' needs, including those of underinsured or uninsured patients.
Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital | |
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Martin Luther King Jr. – Los Angeles Healthcare Corporation (MLK-LA) | |
Geography | |
Location | 1680 120th Street Willowbrook, Los Angeles Los Angeles County, California, United States |
Coordinates | 33.923229°N 118.243737°W / 33.923229; -118.243737 |
Organization | |
Care system | Private, Nonprofit |
Funding | Government hospital |
Type | Community |
Affiliated university | University of California, Los Angeles |
Services | |
Beds | 130 |
History | |
Opened | 2013, opened 2015 |
Links | |
Website | www |
Lists | Hospitals in California |
The hospital opened on July 7, 2015,[2] in a new US$208,500,000 building.[3][4] The hospital on the site of the former Martin Luther King Jr. Multi-Service Ambulatory Care Center, originally named the Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center, known as King/Drew.[5] The adjacent Los Angeles County Department of Health Services Martin Luther King Jr. Outpatient Center opened in a new building in 2014.[6]