MLK Hospital to Reopen Under County-UC Partnership

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Los Angeles County supervisors on Tuesday voted unanimously to ask the University of California to enter into a partnership to reopen inpatient services at Martin Luther King Jr. Hospital by 2012.

“The ball is now in your court,” Supervisor Mark Ridley Thomas told the University of California Board of Regents.

The plan — which calls on the county to reopen the hospital in partnership with the University of California — has been the subject of intense closed-door negotiations for months, but the vote today gives authorization for County Chief Executive William T Fujioka to formally present the plan to the university’s Board of Regents next month and commence public deliberations on the plan.

Inpatient services at the hospital were shut down in August 2007 after years of repeated failures to provide adequate care, including errors involved in multiple deaths.

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