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Let Our Family Care for Yours
Good health should be simple: it should be simple for you to find doctors who can give you and your family the care you need when you don’t feel well…or better yet, when you’re healthy and want to stay that way. And it should be simple for you to find care that’s close to home, from doctors who speak your language and understand what’s important to you.
AltaMed health centers put everything you need, in one place—doctors, tests, treatments, and medicines. We have bilingual health care professionals in your neighborhood. In fact, many of our doctors live in the communities they serve. We’re dedicated to helping individuals and families get the right care they need to grow healthy.
Focus on Routine and Preventive Care
We encourage our patients to start a relationship with a primary care doctor who can get to know you and your health needs and give you regular checkups and screenings. These doctors can also help you make simple changes to keep you healthy or refer you to a specialist for additional care.
Emphasis on the Latest in Chronic Disease Care
AltaMed offers personalized, 360-degree care including testing and diagnostics, as well as treatment. With compassionate doctors and case management services for those who qualify, our goal is to make it easier to manage chronic conditions such as asthma, diabetes, or heart disease—so you can continue to live a long and healthy life.
Primary care doctors give routine physicals and immunizations, treat injury and illness, and can refer you to a specialist.
Primary Care
A primary care doctor treats all the adult members in your family, and they are knowledgeable about a wide variety of medical concerns. Besides giving you immunizations and routine screenings (like blood pressure, weight, cholesterol, blood sugar), they can help you manage chronic, or ongoing conditions, such as asthma, diabetes, heart problems, arthritis, and high blood pressure. Even if your health is good, overall, a primary care doctor can help you lose weight, reduce stress, become more active, and achieve other health goals.
Sometimes, an illness or injury may require more specialized care from another kind of doctor, or even a whole medical team. A primary care doctor should still be your first contact. They can order tests, refer you to specialists, help plan your care, and get you back on the road to being healthy.
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The Services to Help You Grow Healthy and the Protection to Keep You Safe
For the past 50 years, our top priority has been helping our patients grow healthy. Our locations remain open and safe to support you and your family’s health needs.
Your teeth are part of your overall health, which is why many AltaMed Health Centers have dental offices right in the same building.
Dentistry
Everyone wants a bright, shiny smile, but did you know the health of your teeth and mouth are important to the rest of your body? Besides causing you pain, tooth problems such as cavities and bleeding gums may be linked to heart attacks. If you already have a condition such as diabetes, anemia, HIV/AIDS, or cancer, your risk for oral infections, tooth decay, and gum disease is higher.
AltaMed can help make dental exams and treatments part of your healthy habits. We want you and your entire family to keep your teeth as long as possible, which is why we provide many preventive services, including full dental exams with digital X-rays, cleanings, fluoride treatments, and oral health education.
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Find a convenient dental facility in your neighborhood. Some of our locations offer multiple services, including medical, dental, urgent care, pharmacy, and HIV prevention and care.
Keeping Your Child’s Smile Healthy
Seeing your child smile is a great feeling. Keeping that smile healthy can take some work. Children’s dental health can be easy to overlook, but the truth is it’s essential to their overall wellbeing.
We can help guide independent older adults and caregivers to a variety of healthy aging services.
Geriatrics
As we age, we all have different health care needs. No matter how healthy you are, you can’t get away from aging! But you can stay well, and get the right care to help you maintain a healthy life.
AltaMed has doctors who specialize in helping you age well. They’re called geriatric physicians, and they’re trained in the aging process. They focus on some of the risks older adults face, including osteoporosis, heart disease, and sleep disorders. Our geriatric specialists can also refer you or a loved one to other services that promote health and self-sufficiency.
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Healthy Aging: What’s Normal Versus What You Should Worry About
As the saying goes: growing old isn’t for the faint of heart! It takes a lot of work to make it through 50 or 60 years in this world. But the good news is if you take care of yourself, your golden years can be healthy, happy, and active.
Health care for every stage of life, including reproductive health services, mammograms, and other essential screenings.
Women’s Health
Wife, mother, sister, daughter, professional, friend…if you’re a woman, you need to take care of yourself so you can be the very best in all aspects of your life. It’s good to start a health routine early, and continue through every life stage – from reproductive health, safe sex education, mammograms, well woman visits, and so much more.
Besides compassionate care from bilingual doctors and professionals, we have classes available to help support you and your unique health needs.
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Health classes for you and every member of your family.
Let’s Get Back on Track for Women’s Health Care
Even though COVID-19 has been our nation’s most pressing health concern for the past three months, breast cancer, cervical cancer, heart disease, and diabetes still threaten the health of our communities. Hopefully, you’ve been taking care of yourself, eating right, finding ways to exercise, and taking care of your mental health, but if you’re like most people, you’ve probably let your routine visits to the doctor slide.
Moms, moms-to-be, and babies need a little extra support! AltaMed is the place for all their health care needs.
Family Planning and Pediatrics
At AltaMed, we love mothers and their babies – even before they’re born! We provide moms-to-be, wannabe moms, and new mothers with specialized care so they’re in the best health, and can pass that good health along to baby.
We offer a variety of family planning services, including Well-Woman office visits, and more. And our pediatricians can care for your baby until he or she is fully grown, including giving age-appropriate immunizations and screenings.
AltaMed Drive-Up Immunization Clinic at CHLA
For your health convenience, we are pleased to offer a Drive-Up Immunization clinic for well children at:
AltaMed General Pediatrics — Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles (CHLA)
4650 West Sunset Blvd.,
Los Angeles, CA 90027 - Main Entrance
AltaMed pediatric patients, regardless of where they live or where their clinic is located, can get their vaccinations to keep them well, such as mumps, measles, HPV, and the flu. An outdoor, drive up clinic allows children who are well to avoid exposure to those who may be sick in our medical offices. For information, or to make an appointment call (888) 499-9303. Once you have an appointment, don’t forget to bring your child’s immunization records with you.
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Don’t Risk Your Child’s Health: Bring Them in for Safe, Effective Immunizations
You may have concerns about how safe it is to visit an AltaMed location now, and we want to assure you that we have taken significant steps to keep everyone safe during routine visits.
Routine tests like cholesterol, blood pressure, and diabetes checks are essential for a long, healthy life.
Health Screenings
Even healthy adults need regular health screenings. From your head to your toes, and at every age and stage, we meet the screening and immunization guidelines put forth by the agencies that include the U.S. Preventive Services Taskforce, the American Diabetes Association, and the Centers for Disease Control.
If you’re healthy, we’ll try to keep you that way with regular screenings of your blood pressure, blood sugar, cholesterol, teeth, eyes, and weight; if you’re a woman, that also includes Pap smears and mammograms. If you are at increased risk for, or have, common conditions like diabetes or hypertension, you’ll need a few more tests to help make sure you’re moving in the right direction.
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Health Screenings After 50
Even if you’ve lived a healthy life, as you enter your 50s, your risk of developing chronic diseases, such as arthritis, heart conditions, cancer, diabetes, and even depression increases.
Keep your whole family healthy with information and classes on topics like prenatal health, eating well, and healthy kids.
Health Education
AltaMed values each and every patient and we are always happy to see you. But we’d be even happier if you were so healthy you only came to see us once a year! We have a variety of fun and convenient resources designed to help you and your family eat well, stay active, and take an active approach to managing your health.
You can take free AltaMed classes to learn the basics of healthy meals and how to care for every member of your family. Or read, download, and share brochures at your convenience, and learn about topics like diabetes, chronic pain, good hygiene, or anxiety.
Learn Good Health
Our classes are available for free, in English and Spanish, and many different options are available in your area.
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Our bilingual education materials are ready for printing or sharing online.
The Services to Help You Grow Healthy and the Protection to Keep You Safe
For the past 50 years, our top priority has been helping our patients grow healthy. Our locations remain open and safe to support you and your family’s health needs.
Services to help individuals 60 years of age or older stay in their homes and live independently for as long as they can.
Supportive Services
AltaMed supports our members who are elderly or have complex health care needs with programs that make it easier to access the resources and care that can truly make a difference. Our services are tailored to the needs of each patient with the goal of helping older adults continue to live independently, at home, for as long as possible.
And we are here to help caregivers too. Our services include care management, home visits, and limited in-home services, like homemaker assistance and respite hours.
To qualify for Senior Supportive Programs, seniors do not need health insurance, but must:
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Be 60 years of age or older
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Reside in Los Angeles County
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Health Screenings After 50
Even if you’ve lived a healthy life, as you enter your 50s, your risk of developing chronic diseases, such as arthritis, heart conditions, cancer, diabetes, and even depression increases.
We want to help you take care of every part of your health and well-being—and your mental health is a large part of that. See how AltaMed can help.
Behavioral Health
As a woman, it’s important to take care of your behavioral health. Women are much more likely to suffer from major depression, anxiety, and the negative effects of stress. And no matter if the cause is physical, mental, or emotional, we want you to feel comfortable and confident to seek out treatment.
For some people, these feelings may be temporary and quickly resolved with counseling or peer support groups. Others may require more focused treatment and even medication to help them feel better. We’re dedicated to connecting you with the right care: compassionate, personalized, and confidential. Remember, you are not alone.
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Get the Support You Need
Get to the Heart of Heart Disease
We can fill, warm, break, change and give our hearts, but perhaps the most important role of a heart to have is to be a healthy and it’s up to us to make sure it is. Heart disease is the number one cause of death for both men and women in the United States, with one in four deaths caused by heart disease.
Compassionate care is at the core of all we do. We invest in technology and innovation, and we’re committed to constantly improving. Accredited by the Joint Commission, we follow evidence-based guidelines and seek out the best practices to reduce costs and better serve you.
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