Community Served
The South Los Angeles region UMMA serves is federally classified as a "Medically Underserved Area" (MUA) meaning that the ratio of physicians to residents falls below federal standards. The region also has the highest number of uninsured residents in Los Angeles County.
The Clinic serves an impoverished but culturally rich population mostly of Latinos and African-Americans. The clinic serves the unemployed, the homeless, and the working poor, where average annual household income is less than $25,000, over 2/3 of the patients meet federal poverty or very low income criteria, 51% of area adults and 28% of children have no health insurance.
An average of 170 patients are seen weekly and the clinic now has a patient population of over 20,000 individuals who have logged over 30,000 visits.
Services include: adult internal medicine, pediatrics, childhood immunizations, on-site mammography, gynecology, adolescent medicine, HIV/STD testing, laboratory services, health education, ophthalmology and dermatology.
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