The 2007 failure of South LA’s sole public hospital was yet another example of leaders failing a community that experiencing various racial disparities. Coronary heart disease and stroke mortality rates are 30-percent higher than in the county overall, and the median individual income is half the state average. Dr. Elaine Batchlor has led an effort to build the Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital (MLKCH), a private state-of-the-art hospital that opened in 2015. Thanks to her commitment to a hospital-wide culture of innovation and excellence, MLKCH provides quality care comparable to hospitals in more affluent communities, transforming the health of the residents of South LA. MLKCH is one of only 6.4 percent of U.S. hospitals to achieve the highest level of recognition for use of electronic health information, and it ranks among the top 10 percent for patient satisfaction nationwide.