An August 1980 Los Angeles Times article indicated that the closing date of Morningside would be September 15, 1980, citing financial losses and competition from larger hospitals.

[1] Its emergency room closed two weeks before the hospital itself.

[2] Morningside was one of the filming locations for Halloween II (1981), Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), 10 to Midnight (1983) and V: The Final Battle (1984).

[3] That same year construction of the Harvard Yard Senior Apartments began on the former hospital site,[4] with funding provided by the Los Angeles Housing Department.

This article relating to a hospital in California is a stub.