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L.A. Care Health Plan (Local Initiative Health Authority for Los Angeles County) was created in 1997 by the State of California to provide health care services for Medi-Cal managed care beneficiaries, uninsured children and other vulnerable populations in Los Angeles County. [3]
Municipal governments, under Section 17000 of California's Welfare and Institutions Code, are responsible as safety net health care providers. [6] In the 1860s, Los Angeles County appointed a County Physician, and a small hospital for the poor in Los Angeles was established. [6]
The closure of Martin Luther King Jr. Multi-Service Ambulatory Care Center in 2007, due to revocation of federal funding after the hospital failed a comprehensive review by the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, had immediate ramifications in the South Los Angeles area, which was left without a major hospital providing indigent care.
Ross-Loos was established in 1929 by two physicians: Donald E. Ross [1] and H. Clifford Loos, older brother of writer Anita Loos.The plan consisted of monthly payments which assured benefits of medical and hospital care to over two thousand employees of Los Angeles County and the Department of Water and Power and their families.
The South Los Angeles service area that UMMA serves has been designated by the federal government as both a Primary Care Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA) and a Medically Underserved Area (MUA), meaning that the region is lacking in primary, dental, and mental health care providers and has a significant shortage of primary care services.
High Desert Regional Medical Center, also known as HDRHC, or by the name High Desert Regional, is a 142,000-square-foot ambulatory care clinic located at 335 East Avenue I in the Lancaster, California [1] It is operated by the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services through its Ambulatory Care Network (ACN). The medical facility was ...
Los Angeles General Medical Center (also known as LA General and formerly known as Los Angeles County+USC Medical Center, County/USC, County General or by the abbreviation LAC+USC) is a 600-bed public teaching hospital located at 2051 Marengo Street in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, and one of the largest academic medical centers in the United States.
CHA Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center is the first Korean-owned and operated general hospital in the United States. The hospital is an acute-care seven-building facility with 434 licensed beds, 1,400 employees, and an 800-member medical staff. It was the proving round for the new specialty of critical care medicine.