New Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital Formally Dedicated

WILLOWBROOK (CBSLA.com) — The newly renovated and recently reopened Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital was formally dedicated Friday.

The $210 million, 131-bed hospital reopened for business July 7 in unincorporated Willowbrook south of Watts.

The hospital is part of a $650 million medical campus that already included an outpatient and urgent care centers. Those centers have been operating in place of Martin Luther King-Drew Medical Center, which was closed in August 2007 after a series of well-publicized lapses in medical care.

While the old King-Drew Medical Center, which opened in 1972, was run by the county, the new hospital is being managed by a governing authority overseen by healthcare, business and law professionals focused exclusively on the facility.

MLK Community Hospital has 93 medical/surgical beds, 20 intensive care, beds and 18 obstetrical beds. The medical staff includes six hospital-based physician groups and the facility will offer emergency and general medical care, along with surgical, labor and delivery services.

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