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LOS ANGELES (AP) - University of California regents have approved a plan to reopen a troubled hospital in South Los Angeles.
The Board of Regents voted Thursday to partner with Los Angeles County to reopen emergency and inpatient services at the new Martin Luther King Jr. hospital by 2012. The vote came at the University of California, Los Angeles campus.
The hospital formerly known as King-Harbor was built to serve one of the poorest neighborhoods in Los Angeles in the wake of the 1965 Watts riots. The hospital closed in August 2007 because years of negligence resulted in patient deaths.
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