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Dignity Health-California Hospital Medical Center is known for its wide range of medical services – from obstetrics and gynecology, to orthopedics and cardiology. The hospital operates as a Level II Trauma Center, [1] and its emergency department treats over 70,000 patients each year.
In January 1996, the hospital's emergency department was designated a level II trauma center. [ 5 ] After the August 2007 closure of the troubled nearby public hospital, Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital (King-Harbor), St. Francis' proximity caused it to receive the greater number of former patients.
Antelope Valley Medical Center (AVMC) is a public hospital located in Lancaster, California specializing in acute care. It has 420 beds and is accredited by the Joint Commission . [ 1 ] In March 2010 AVMC was declared one of the 14 trauma centers in Los Angeles County .
Medi-Cal was created in 1965 by the California Medical Assistance Program a few months after the national legislation was passed. [2] Approximately 15.28 million people were enrolled in Medi-Cal as of September 2022, [3] or about 40% of California's population; in most counties, more than half of eligible residents were enrolled as of 2020. [4]
2005-2016 Healthy Kids. Partnership HealthPlan also offered a health insurance product called Healthy Kids to low income children not otherwise eligible for Medi-Cal. [8] In 2016, the Healthy Kids Program was folded into Medi-Cal under California's SB 75, passed in 2015. [9]
The medical center has also been named one of the nation's top hospitals for quality and safety by the Leapfrog Group. [22] Located in the City of Orange, 13 miles from the UCI campus, UC Irvine Medical Center has 411 licensed beds and is the principal clinical facility for the teaching and research programs of the UC Irvine School of Medicine.
The Oakland Medical Center was the first of the Kaiser Permanente hospitals, and opened in 1942 as a result of the acquisition of the Fabiola charity hospital (which operated from 1887 to 1932 before being sold to Samuel Merritt Hospital) by the Permanente Foundation, founded by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser and physician Sidney Garfield. [1]
Kaiser Richmond Medical Center is a large Kaiser Permanente hospital in downtown Richmond, California which serves 77,000 members registered under its medical plans. [1] It opened in 1995 replacing the historic 1942 Richmond Field Hospital that serviced Liberty shipyard workers and thus gave birth to the HMO .