Nov 19, 2009 12:14 pm US/Pacific
UC Votes To Reopen MLK-Harbor Hospital
LOS ANGELES (AP) ―
The University of California Board of Regents agreed today to partner with Los Angeles County to reopen Martin Luther King Jr. Hospital, the Willowbrook medical center that was closed in 2007 after failing a series of federal inspections.
After a slew of failed attempts, Los Angeles County supervisors have called the UC the last, best hope to fully reopen Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital.
The UC Regents are expected to announce their decision during a public meeting Thursday at the University of California Los Angeles campus.
Built to serve one of the poorest neighborhoods in the city in the wake of the 1965 Watts riots, King-Harbor partially closed in August 2007.
Though the county tried to improve patient care through discipline and reorganizations, years of negligence resulted in patient deaths and crucial federal funding was dropped.
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