Avalon is the only incorporated city on Santa Catalina Island, a compact seaside village of hillside homes, golf-cart streets, and a waterfront crowned by the iconic Casino building — reachable from the mainland only by boat or helicopter. That isolation defines everything about health care here. With a resident population of only a few thousand and a senior share around 16%, Avalon's older residents managing chronic wounds face a challenge no mainland city does: the nearest large hospitals are an hour's ferry ride across the channel. Our licensed physicians and nurse practitioners provide wound care throughout the village and the hills above it: the neighborhoods around Crescent Avenue and the waterfront, the hillside homes above Avalon Bay, the streets up Tremont and toward Falls Canyon, and the residential areas near Descanso Canyon and Casino Point. For an Avalon resident with a diabetic foot ulcer, a venous leg ulcer, or a post-surgical wound, a routine trip to a mainland wound clinic means a ferry, a mainland drive, and most of a day gone — which is precisely why so many wounds here go under-treated. Home-based care on the island removes that impossible logistics chain. Avalon is served by the small Catalina Island Medical Center, which provides emergency and basic care, but complex cases are often transferred to the mainland — commonly to Long Beach Medical Center (MemorialCare) or Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center in San Pedro. We coordinate with the discharge planning teams at these facilities so a resident returning to the island with a surgical wound, a pressure injury, or a diabetic ulcer transitions to physician-led care at home without a gap. Wound measurements, photographs, and encounter notes go back to the discharging team and the patient's primary care physician after every visit. Avalon has a meaningful Spanish-speaking community among its year-round residents, and our coordination team arranges interpreter support when scheduling so dressing-change steps, wound care instructions, and infection warning signs are understood by the patient and family. Visits are typically covered under Medicare Part B, Medicare Advantage, and most commercial plans. Our coordination line at 877-545-1300 is open 24/7. Call to arrange an assessment.
No mainland barrier to care compares to a channel of open ocean. For an older Avalon resident with a chronic wound, the choice between a full-day round trip to a mainland wound clinic — ferry, drive, wait, and back before the last boat — and simply not going is a choice that leads directly to wounds that deteriorate. In a community this isolated, consistent local wound care is not a convenience; it is often the difference between a wound that heals and one that becomes an emergency requiring evacuation. The licensed physicians and nurse practitioners who care for Avalon patients bring hospital-grade wound care to the home: sharp debridement, infection surveillance, negative pressure wound therapy, multilayer compression for venous disease, advanced biological dressings, and cellular tissue products when clinically indicated. Limb preservation is the explicit goal for every diabetic foot referral. Consistency is what heals chronic wounds, and on Catalina consistency is the hardest thing to achieve. Home-based visits make it possible whether the patient lives in the village near Crescent Avenue, a hillside home above the bay, or a care setting anywhere in the 90704 ZIP code.
Healix360 coordinates physician-led care for chronic and complex wounds across Avalon.
Our team can coordinate with hospitals, primary care clinicians, specialists, home health agencies, and facility teams serving Avalon.
You really provide wound care on Catalina Island? Yes. We coordinate physician-led home wound care for Avalon residents on Santa Catalina Island. Because the nearest large hospitals are across the channel, local home-based care is especially important here. Call 877-545-1300 to arrange an assessment and we will coordinate the logistics.
How does care work given the island's isolation from the mainland? Our coordination team plans visits around the island's transportation realities and works with Catalina Island Medical Center and mainland hospitals so care stays continuous. The goal is to spare residents the full-day ferry round trip a mainland wound clinic would require.
Which hospitals do you coordinate with for Avalon patients? Avalon is served locally by Catalina Island Medical Center, and complex cases are often transferred to mainland hospitals such as Long Beach Medical Center (MemorialCare) or Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center in San Pedro. We send wound measurements, photographs, and encounter notes back to the discharging team and the patient's primary care physician after each visit.
What kinds of wounds do you treat in Avalon? Diabetic foot ulcers, venous leg ulcers, pressure injuries, post-surgical wounds, and other non-healing wounds. Our clinicians use debridement, infection control, compression, negative pressure wound therapy, and advanced dressings as clinically indicated.
Is interpreter support available for Spanish-speaking residents? Yes. Avalon has a meaningful Spanish-speaking year-round community. Our coordination team arranges interpreter support when scheduling so wound care instructions are fully understood by the patient and family.
Is mobile wound care in Avalon covered by Medicare? Yes. Physician-led visits are typically covered under Medicare Part B, Medicare Advantage, and most commercial plans active in Los Angeles County. Advanced dressings and cellular tissue products are also covered when clinically indicated. We verify coverage before the first visit.
Can you help a diabetic foot wound and support limb preservation? Yes. Limb preservation is the explicit goal of our diabetic foot care. Our clinicians combine debridement, offloading guidance, infection control, and advanced biologics when indicated, delivered consistently at home — which is invaluable in a place as isolated as Catalina.
What are your hours, and do I need a referral? Our coordination line at 877-545-1300 is open 24/7. You do not need a referral — a referral speeds intake, but patients and family members can call directly. We handle the medical necessity documentation and loop in the patient's primary care physician afterward.
Yes. We coordinate physician-led home wound care for Avalon residents on Santa Catalina Island. Because the nearest large hospitals are across the channel, local home-based care is especially important here. Call 877-545-1300 to arrange an assessment and we will coordinate the logistics.
Our coordination team plans visits around the island's transportation realities and works with Catalina Island Medical Center and mainland hospitals so care stays continuous. The goal is to spare residents the full-day ferry round trip a mainland wound clinic would require.
Avalon is served locally by Catalina Island Medical Center, and complex cases are often transferred to mainland hospitals such as Long Beach Medical Center (MemorialCare) or Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center in San Pedro. We send wound measurements, photographs, and encounter notes back to the discharging team and the patient's primary care physician after each visit.
Diabetic foot ulcers, venous leg ulcers, pressure injuries, post-surgical wounds, and other non-healing wounds. Our clinicians use debridement, infection control, compression, negative pressure wound therapy, and advanced dressings as clinically indicated.
Yes. Avalon has a meaningful Spanish-speaking year-round community. Our coordination team arranges interpreter support when scheduling so wound care instructions are fully understood by the patient and family.
Yes. Physician-led visits are typically covered under Medicare Part B, Medicare Advantage, and most commercial plans active in Los Angeles County. Advanced dressings and cellular tissue products are also covered when clinically indicated. We verify coverage before the first visit.
Yes. Limb preservation is the explicit goal of our diabetic foot care. Our clinicians combine debridement, offloading guidance, infection control, and advanced biologics when indicated, delivered consistently at home — which is invaluable in a place as isolated as Catalina.
Our coordination line at 877-545-1300 is open 24/7. You do not need a referral — a referral speeds intake, but patients and family members can call directly. We handle the medical necessity documentation and loop in the patient's primary care physician afterward.
Call 877-545-1300 or request a provider to begin care. Healix360 serves Southern California and Nevada and accepts Medicare Part B and most major insurance plans.