Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital
| Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital | |
|---|---|
| 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°55′24″N 118°14′37″W / 33.923229°N 118.243737°W |
| 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 |
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. It was planned and designed to especially serve the surrounding South Los Angeles communities' needs, including those of underinsured or uninsured patients.
The hospital opened on July 7, 2015, in a new US$208,500,000 building. 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. The adjacent Los Angeles County Department of Health Services Martin Luther King Jr. Outpatient Center opened in a new building in 2014.