Two hospitals, a partnership and the resilience of South Los Angeles
On January 19, 2021 UCLA Health reported, Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital and UCLA Health have vowed to fulfill a promise made in the wake of the Watts Rebellion.
“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.” – Rev. Martin Luther King Jr, 1966 Convention of the Medical Committee for Human Rights.
Half a century after Dr. King said those words, our health care systems are stretched thin due to the pervasive and ongoing parallel pandemics of COVID-19 and structural racism.
As institutions across the country grapple with ways to address disparities among low-income and vulnerable communities, UCLA Health looks to its recent history in helping to found health care system Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital (MLKCH).
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