Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital

Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital
Martin Luther King Jr. – Los Angeles Healthcare Corporation (MLK-LA)
Geography
Location1680 120th Street
Willowbrook, Los Angeles
Los Angeles County, California, United States
Coordinates33°55′24″N 118°14′37″W / 33.923229°N 118.243737°W / 33.923229; -118.243737
Organization
Care systemPrivate, Nonprofit
FundingGovernment hospital
TypeCommunity
Affiliated universityUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Services
Beds130
History
Opened2013, opened 2015
Links
Websitewww.mlkcommunityhospital.org
ListsHospitals 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.