Inside the Fight to Keep a Labor Ward Open at a Los Angeles Hospital
Across the country, communities are scrambling to save maternity care
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Across the country, communities are scrambling to save maternity care
MLK Community Hospital could face closure as it continues to deal with overwhelming patient volumes that exceed the safety net hospital's capacity.
Los Angeles hospitals are closing maternity wards at a faster pace than the region's declining birth rates. Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital is fighting the trend, but leaders say
California gets more than $30 billion a year, more than any other state, to insure millions of people under Obamacare.
Doctors and dentists at L.A. County-run facilities are putting off a strike indefinitely, their union says. The walkout had been planned for next week.