Participating Hospitals
California Hospital Medical Center (California)
Founded in 1887, California was formerly associated with UniHealth America and is now a member of Catholic Healthcare West. It is a primary care hospital and a "disproportionate share" (DSH) provider of services to Medi-Cal recipients and the medically indigent. It focuses on improving access to health care for low-income people, improving the quality of health care for people in central Los Angeles, and promoting community wellness. In addition, California operates a network of five community clinics and other outreach programs that take preventive care and other critical health-related services to individuals where they live, work, play, and worship. These services range from public health coverage enrollment assistance to domestic violence prevention education.
Childrens Hospital Los Angeles (Childrens)
Founded in 1901, Childrens is a national leader for family centered pediatric care, which it provides through 29 outpatient clinics and 33 pediatric subspecialties. In addition, it provides cutting-edge pediatric practice through clinical, translational, and basic science research conducted in its freestanding Research Institute; proactive and innovative community outreach; and physician education through a 69-year affiliation with the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC). It maintains the only Level I Pediatric Trauma Center in the Los Angeles area, and has been designated as a Regional Pediatric Trauma Center by the American College of Surgeons. Its Pediatric Emergency Transport System is the largest in the United States. Each year, Childrens has over 300,000 inpatient and outpatient visits from critically and chronically ill children and adolescents. For eleven consecutive years, U.S. News and World Report has ranked Childrens as one of the top five pediatric hospitals in the United States in its National Physician Survey.
Good Samaritan Hospital (Good Samaritan)
Good Samaritan is a community hospital and academic medical center affiliated with the USC Keck School of Medicine. Good Samaritan has 408 licensed beds. The hospital offers diagnostic, surgical and therapeutic care. Good Samaritan supports eight Centers of Excellence that focus on advancing the science of medicine while providing outstanding patient care. Each year, Good Samaritan admits approximately 17,000 patients (excluding births) and handles more than 93,700 outpatient visits. More than 4,100 surgeries are performed annually in 18 surgical suites.
Harbor/UCLA Medical Center (Harbor)
Harbor/UCLA Medical Center is a nationally ranked academic medical center and the only public hospital in Los Angeles with a Pediatric Endocrinology program accredited by California Children's Services to provide subspecialty residency training and subspecialty care to children and adolescents with diabetes. Overseen by the LA County Board of Supervisors, it provides services to county residents, regardless of ability to pay. In fiscal 2000, Harbor had more than 24,000 outpatient visits to its two primary and eight specialty pediatric clinics; 25,000 visits to the pediatric emergency department; and 2,400 admissions to the pediatric inpatient ward and intensive care units.
Huntington Hospital (Huntington)
Huntington is a 508-bed non-profit community hospital with more than 2,600 employees and 630 physicians. In addition to inpatient hospital services such as critical and intensive care, respiratory, maternity, rehabilitation, general medical and surgical units, Huntington offers many other specialty programs/services, including 24-hour emergency and trauma services, the emergency chest pain and rapid intervention program, neonatology, pediatric intensive care, oncology, psychiatry, sleep disorders center, comprehensive services for seniors and low cost basic out-patient health services. In 2002, it served more than 1,500 pediatric inpatients and provided almost 14,000 pediatric emergency room visits. Huntington is a research facility and serves as a teaching affiliate of the University of Southern California School of Medicine as well as several colleges and nursing schools.
National Health Foundation (NHF)
Created in 1973 by the Hospital Council of Southern California, NHF is a non-profit, charitable foundation whose mission is to improve access to health care for the underserved. It has achieved this through various demonstration and pilot projects, many of which have involved NHF staffing coalitions, collaborations and jointly planned and implemented projects. For example, its Prenatal/OB Access project provided prenatal care to over 15,000 Medi-Cal eligible women using outreach, application assistance and medical care in eight newly created/expanded hospital-based clinics. At least six of these clinics remain in operation today. Its Poison Control Center Re-engineering project involved restructuring the statewide poison control system from six autonomous sites to three linked sites with a single 800#. The restructured system, currently threatened by California’s budget cuts, has been used as a model for other States.