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The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, the Los Angeles City Council, the U.S. House of Representatives, and the White House have honored UMMA for their work in South Los Angeles. The clinic was recognized by Assembly member Reginald Byron Jones-Sawyer, Sr. as the 2020 California Nonprofit of the Year for the 59th Assembly District for ...
The clinic cares for individuals and families with low or no income, regardless of their insurance or immigration status. The Clinic' patients come from across Los Angeles County. The Clinic served more than 45,000 people in its fiscal year ending June 30, 2022. 91% live below 200% of the federal poverty level
The department (sometimes abbreviated as DHS or LADHS) operates an extensive healthcare network made up of Los Angeles General Medical Center, Harbor–UCLA Medical Center, Olive View–UCLA Medical Center, Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center, and numerous outpatient clinics, including two ambulatory care centers and 16 local ...
AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) is a Los Angeles-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that provides HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, and advocacy services. [4] As of 2024, AHF operates about 400 clinics, 69 outpatient healthcare centers, 62 pharmacies, and 22 Out of the Closet thrift stores across 16 U.S. states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, and 47 countries, with over 5,000 employees, and ...
In July 2018, L.A. Care launched Elevating the Safety Net, a long-term initiative to recruit primary care physicians to the Los Angeles County safety net. The L.A. Care Board of Governors committed $31 million for the initiative, which has three programs: medical school scholarships, medical school loan repayments and a recruitment program to ...
From 1968 through the 1970s, the Black Panther Party established several Peoples’ Free Medical Clinics as part of their efforts to counter systemic discrimination against Black people in hospitals and private medical practices. [15] [16] The Peoples' Free Medical Clinics served as an advocating body as well. These clinics helped integrate the ...
Ruth Janetta Temple (1892–1984) was an American physician who was a leader in providing free and affordable healthcare and education to underserved communities in Los Angeles, California. She and her husband, Otis Banks, established the Temple Health Institute in East Los Angeles , which became a model for community-based health clinics ...
An enlargeable map of the 58 counties of the state of California. This is a list of hospitals in California (), grouped by county and sorted by hospital name. In healthcare in California, only a general acute care hospital or acute psychiatric hospital, as licensed by the California Department of Public Health, can be referred to as a "hospital."