Assemblymember Mike A. Gipson held a press conference on June 7 to sound the alarm on the impending shutdown of Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital and its maternity ward, which would negatively impact women all over South L.A. and surrounding neighborhoods.
If we don’t get vaccinated, I foresee repeat cycles of preventable deaths, business and school closures, and potentially even more dangerous variants of the virus in our future. Unfortunately, black and brown communities that have been the hardest hit by Covid are now lagging behind in taking advantage of the amazing science that led to our Covid vaccines.
Freddie Figgers, an entrepreneur based on Florida, reached out to Bishop Kenneth C. Ulmer of Faithful Central Bible Church and the result was Centinela and Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospitals receiving 750,000 masks and 250,000 PPE. Inglewood City Hall was also a recipient of some of the supplies.
What we’re dealing with as a nation in this moment is unprecedented in modern history. We have fears about our health, our families and friends, fears about our jobs and our finances, and about what this crisis will mean for the economy. What will the world look like in recovery from the novel coronavirus?
This project will continue through 2021 thanks to the support of the California Arts Council.
The new clinic, located at 2215 W. Rosecrans Avenue, welcomed its first patients on December 27, 2016.
The two-day event provided expecting mothers and their significant others the opportunity to engage with physicians and nurses through discussion
L.A. County is known for having the best trauma care systems in the world, with South L.A. alone making up 20 percent of trauma related death with a mortality rate of 3.6 percent. With the reopening of King Community Hospital this summer, medical leaders have high hopes these numbers continue to decrease.