South L.A.'s new MLK hospital campus reflects the new healthcare, emphasizing preventive treatments with a new urgent-care center and outpatient and public health clinics, according to an article on the L.A. Times website.
The old hospital made national news in 2007, when a woman died writhing on the floor of the emergency room lobby and a janitor mopped around her as she vomited. That incident followed years of complaints about poor treatment, and federal regulators ultimately forced the hospital to shut down, the article said.
In the eight years since the hospital closed, the healthcare landscape has changed dramatically.
The new MLK hospital has 131 beds, compared with more than 450 when the hospital was at its largest. The emergency room no longer has a trauma center, and the hospital offers fewer medical specialties than before.
Planners say this aligns with the latest thinking of how to provide care.
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