Largest concentration of Hospitals in Los Angeles (Orange, San Fernando: home, employment)

[amungur]

Hi all,

I was wondering if Los Angeles has one or many medical district?

I was planning on opening a Senior Home Care business and wanted to be close to the older population and hospitals.

Thanks!

[munchitup]

Sunset and Vermont in East Hollywood.

[nightlysparrow]

Originally Posted by munchitup

Sunset and Vermont in East Hollywood.

This comes to mind, yes, but there are only 3 hospitals there, and one is Children's, which is irrelevant to the OP's senior citizen plans, and the other is Kaiser, which as an HMO has it's own referral system.

[BRinSM]

sunset and vermont is home to a huge kaiser facility as well as the children's hospital, but i wouldn't call it a medical district. not necessarily a huge concentration of old folks around there either. the area around cedars sinai has a lot of medical related businesses, especially down robertson which i believe is in the city limit of beverly hills. lots of older folks in beverly hills, most of which have money. this may be worth considering.

[nightlysparrow]

I would say the San Fernando Valley taken as a whole.

[HarryKerryJr]

What's different about the LA area is that hospitals are all over the place and everywhere and not so invested in one place on the type like say the Texas Medical Center in Houston or Seattle's Pill Hill because our huge population is ubiquitous and everywhere, and Houston isn't even close to our massive sprawl and far larger population. Those types of medical centers are primarily RESEARCH centers rather than serving lots and lots of patients. Yes, UCLA Medical Center is quite large with a lot of facilities and whole buildings committed to various specialities and is heavy into research and serving large numbers of patients, and LAC+USC Medical Center has hospitals, clinics, spcialities buildings also part research and serving a tremendous local population and a School of Medicine and nursing. Our medical industry is far more MACRO while most other cities have a far more MICRO medical and health industry.

Houston has 2 level I trauma centers with 2 children's level I trauma while Seattle has only 1 level I trauma center for all of Washington State that also serves neighboring states as their ONLY level I trauma. LA County has 4 level I trauma centers (3 in the city of Los Angeles alone) along with 1 children's level I trauma at Children's Hospital Los Angeles and adding to that is UCI in Orange County as an additional metro LA level I trauma center (lumping LA and Orange County as one area is very common and inter-county travel between the two is very common).

The Los Angeles area has the highest density of the country (we're not talking about Manhattan nor just NYC where their metro area density plummets leaving NYC, but metro area). All other cities and metro areas are more compact (even Houston by comparison to LA) and have far lower density outside their central core, so having so much in ONE location can make some sense for those metro areas, but in LA, you have to think of it as living in a different country. Having too much in one locale just doesn't work here.

Both LA City Fire and LA County fire have a large number of fleet helicopters that not only fight fires and make rescues, but also serve to airlift people from accident scenes who need level I trauma where ground transportation would just be impractical. Private or Hospital medical transports are only for non-emergency uses with LA City Fire and LA County Fire handling all first response and emergency calls with large fleets helicopters that can handle multiple emergency calls (rescues, emergence medical transports) in different locations all at the same time.

So, you pretty much have vast areas of LA to get employment in the medical field at top or near-top facilities while living in almost any neighborhood you wish. Good luck.

[TheOldBear]

Originally Posted by amungur

Hi all,

I was wondering if Los Angeles has one or many medical district?

I was planning on opening a Senior Home Care business and wanted to be close to the older population and hospitals.

Thanks!

There are no real 'medical districts” in Southern California. What we have are local Hospitals that serve their local community. I spent 30 some years in the Diaper and Diabetes biz and have seen 'em all . . . literally.



Biggest concentration of beds is west of the 710 Fwy and east of Western Avenue between Hollywood and the south side. Good Samaritan, Pres, St. Vinnie's, White Memorial, California Medical Center, Keck, USC/County and some more are all there as are about a zillion skilled beds.