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West Los Angeles Healthcare Center

The West Los Angeles Healthcare Center strives for excellence in patient care, research, and education. It provides a full spectrum of primary and tertiary inpatient and ambulatory care (acute, sub-acute, rehabilitation, extended care, mental health services, and home healthcare) to over one-million veterans residing in the primary service area of Los Angeles County, which has the largest concentration of veterans of any county in the United States. 

Sepulveda Ambulatory Care Center

The Sepulveda Ambulatory Care Center & Nursing Home offers a state-of-the-art ambulatory care facility and provides care to approximately 17,000 patients. 
All patients are assigned to primary care which is provided by three multidisciplinary teams. The center has specialty outpatient programs in spinal cord injury, stroke rehabilitation, women's health, preventative medicine, dentistry, mental health, and chemical dependency.

Since our founding in 1902, Cedars-Sinai has been solely focused on providing the finest healthcare available among California hospitals. As a result, many advances in all areas of healthcare have been made and hundreds of thousands of lives have been significantly impacted.
Cedars-Sinai ranks as one of the top California hospitals in clinical quality.* Quality patient care and dedication to patient satisfaction are the cornerstones of Cedars-Sinai. Our quality is measured in high patient satisfaction scores, continuous clinical performance activities, excellent medical outcomes, ongoing research and academic programs, and receipt of the following designations and awards.

UCLA Healthcare, the clinical component of the UCLA academic medical enterprise, supports our academic mission across a broad spectrum of sites and settings. These include UCLA Medical Center*, Santa Monica - UCLA Medical Center*, Stewart and Lynda Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital at UCLA*, Mattel Children's Hospital at UCLA*, and the UCLA Medical Group along with its wide-reaching system of primary care and specialty care offices throughout the western Los Angeles area.

UCLA Healthcare's commitment to patient care, research, and education means that our patients benefit from the latest diagnostic and treatment techniques in virtually every area of medicine.

Founded in 1924 as the 12-bed Milton Hospital, Centinela Freeman Regional Medical Center, Centinela Campus has grown to become a 370-bed medical center.  A full-service, acute-care hospital, Centinela is accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. Recognized nationally and internationally for its work in the area of orthopedic medicine, Centinela is the official hospital for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Lakers, Clippers, Sparks and the Avengers.

VA Long Beach Healthcare System (VALBHS) is a tertiary care facility classified as a Clinical Referral Level 1 Facility. The VA Long Beach Healthcare System is a part of Desert Pacific Healthcare Network which includes facilities in Las Vegas, Loma Linda, San Diego, and the Greater Los Angeles area. The VA Long Beach Healthcare System is one of the most diversified tertiary health care providers in the VA. It is a teaching hospital, providing a full range of patient care services, with state-of-the-art technology as well as education and research.

Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center has over 50 years of experience providing quality care for persons with physical disabilities. In the 1950's, Rancho Los Amigos made its transition to rehabilitative care with the waning of the polio epidemic, refocusing the team treatment approach developed to address polio on the rehabilitation of persons with disabling injury and illness.

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