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About MLK Community Healthcare

When we opened in 2015, we recognized we had a unique opportunity: to reinvent the way care is delivered in safety-net communities. Our goal is to provide care equal to that found in more affluent areas and that commitment is reflected in everything we do. From our beautiful, state-of-the-art facilities to our best-in-class technology, systems and operations, to our mission-driven providers from the nation’s leading academic centers, we have established an intentional, quality-driven healthcare culture to address South LA’s most pressing health problems. Read more about our quality.

"MLKCH is a state-of-the-art oasis of care in a healthcare desert" - CNN
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Our services

MLKCH provides maternity, critical and inpatient care via its 131-bed hospital and primary & specialty care in our outpatient doctors’ offices throughout South LA.

Our outpatient services include

  • Primary care
  • Pediatrics
  • Diabetes (endocrinology)
  • Heart Disease (cardiology)
  • Lung Disease (pulmonology)
  • Urology (men’s health)
  • Mental and behavioral health (psychiatry/social work)
  • Foot care (podiatry)
  • Wound care
  • Infectious disease
  • Surgery
  • Addiction medicine
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Model maternity program

MLKCH supports mothers before, during and after pregnancy through its award-winning maternity program. We are one of the few hospitals in the nation to offer a nurse-midwife driven model, which provides mothers with an unparalleled level of physician-midwife support. We are on Cal Hospital Compare’s Maternity Honor Roll because of our low C-section rates and outstanding outcomes, especially for women of color.

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Innovative community-based care

MLKCH improves health through a variety of community-based programs, ranging from mobile health screenings, to nutrition and men’s health programs, classes and support groups, to street medicine and in-home care visits for patients with access challenges.

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Raising awareness and support

The MLK Community Health Foundation raises awareness and support for initiatives that improve the health of residents in South LA.

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Developing the healthcare workforce

MLKCH is investing in the healthcare workforce of the future. From our first-of-its-kind non-profit medical group, to its best in class nurse training programs, to its new internal medical residency program designed to train the next generation of socially-conscious physicians, we are pioneering new models of how to bring quality care to a vulnerable community.

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Our mission

To provide compassionate, collaborative, quality care, and improve the health of our community

Our vision

To be a leading model of innovative, collaborative, community healthcare

Our values

Caring, collaboration, accountability, respect, and excellence