About LA County
HASC’s Los Angeles Region includes facilities ranging in size from a nonprofit, university-affiliated community teaching hospital of 1,258 beds to a sole provider community hospital of 16 beds — and a rural, critical access hospital of 12 beds. The county has 76 hospital emergency departments and 15 fully accredited trauma centers serving almost 10 million residents.
Cherished Futures Marks Third Year of Efforts to Address Birth Inequities Impacting Black Families
Cherished Futures for Black Moms & Babies celebrated its third year of working to improve birth equity for Black families in LA County and released two new reports.
In the Spotlight: LA Partnership and Communities Lifting Communities
This post has been archived and contains information that may be out of date.Focus on Homelessness in Los Angeles County is a joint initiative of Communities Lifting Communities (CLC) and the Los Angeles County Community Health Assessment and Action Partnership (LA Partnership) — a collaborative of more than 30 hospitals, health systems, public health departments […]
Karl Keeler Named Chief Executive of Providence Saint Joseph
In the Spotlight: Teri Hollingsworth
This post has been archived and contains information that may be out of date.This interview with Teri Hollingsworth, HASC’s Vice President of Human Resources and Education Services, took place on KVTA Radio’s Workforce Wednesdays segment. Teri, along with Cynthia Avila of the Workforce Development Board of Ventura County, HASC’s partner, discussed the free Virtual Health […]
Program Offers Patient Care Assistant Training and Employment
Adena Tessler Named Regional Vice President of Los Angeles County
LANES Platform Connects L.A. County Providers to California Immunization Registry, or CAIR
In the Spotlight: Cathy Chidester
This post has been archived and contains information that may be out of date.This interview is part of In the Spotlight — a HASC series profiling people connected to the association pursuing innovative, impactful work in their communities. Listen to an audio podcast supplement to the interview. Los Angeles County Emergency Medical Services Executive Director Cathy Chidester has seen […]
In the Spotlight: Aizita Magaña
This post has been archived and contains information that may be out of date.Aizita Magaña plays a lead role in the region’s fight against COVID-19 this month. As director of planning and public partnerships with the L.A. County Department of Public Health’s Vaccine Preventable Disease Control Program, she shapes communications around one of Southern California’s most critical vaccination efforts of […]
In the Spotlight: Susan Harrington
This post has been archived and contains information that may be out of date. Susan Harrington is executive director of Communities Lifting Communities — the HASC initiative aimed at health disparities and upstream factors affecting diabetes, preterm births and other public health challenges. She recently sat down with the HASC Strategic Communications team to discuss […]