{"id":471015,"date":"2026-02-16T00:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T00:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/471015\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T00:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T00:27:10","slug":"la-county-to-close-7-public-health-clinics-after-being-hit-with-more-than-50-million-in-federal-state-and-local-funding-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/471015\/","title":{"rendered":"LA County to close 7 public health clinics after being hit with more than $50 million in federal, state and local funding cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">LOS ANGELES (KABC) &#8212; Los Angeles County Public Health will close seven of its clinics next week after the department said it was hit with more than $50 million in federal, state and local funding cuts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The closures include the Curtis R. Tucker clinic in Inglewood, as well as facilities in Hollywood-Wilshire, Pomona, Torrance and Antelope Valley in Lancaster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Center for Community Health and the Dr. Ruth Temple Health Center in Los Angeles are also set to shut down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">According to the department, the clinics will close on February 27. The North Hollywood clinic is scheduled to reopen in 2027 and once it reopens, the Glendale clinic will close, the department said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The county said services will continue to be provided at six remaining public health clinics and nearby community health clinics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">For a <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/publichealth.lacounty.gov\/phcommon\/public\/media\/mediapubdetail.cfm?unit=media&amp;ou=ph&amp;prog=media&amp;cur=cur&amp;prid=5253&amp;row=25&amp;start=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">full list of closures, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KABC Television, LLC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES (KABC) &#8212; Los Angeles County Public Health will close seven of its clinics next week after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[218642,97,252,253],"class_list":["post-471015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-218642","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}