Overview

Clinics are an organized medical service offering diagnostic, therapeutic, or preventive outpatient services. Often, clinics encompass an entire medical teaching center, including the hospital and the outpatient facilities. The medical care offered by a clinic may or may not be connected with a hospital. Hospital clinics are primarily concerned with acute diseases, and the physicians in the clinics are usually the same physicians who treat inpatients in the hospital. There are 97 clinics with 450+ cites within Los Angeles County.

The Community Clinic Association of Los Angles County (CCALAC) is the healthcare coalition representative for the clinic sector, which advocates for over 450 clinics throughout Los Angeles County. CCALAC is the conduit and integrator of services, providing support to help Los Angeles County clinics address the needs of their communities. They identify the collective needs of clinics and work to address them through advocacy, education, peer support and other services. CCALAC connects clinics with one another, shares and leverages resources, increases organizational capacity, and raises a unified voice at the local, state, and federal levels on behalf of Los Angeles County clinics.