Bell Gardens is one of the most densely populated small cities in Los Angeles County, a tight grid of family homes and apartment courts pressed between the 710 freeway and the Rio Hondo in the southeast LA industrial belt. It is an overwhelmingly Latino, working-class community, and its diabetes rate runs around 13% — noticeably above the county and state averages. That combination is exactly why diabetic foot ulcers are the wound our clinicians treat most often here. Our licensed physicians and nurse practitioners see patients across the whole city: the packed residential streets around Bell Gardens High School, the apartment blocks off Eastern Avenue and Garfield Avenue, the homes near Suva Street, and the neighborhoods around John Anson Ford Park and the Florence Avenue business district. In a household where several generations share a small home and the working-age adults are on shift schedules, getting an elderly parent to a weekly outpatient wound clinic is genuinely hard — and a diabetic foot ulcer that is supposed to stay offloaded ends up neglected between missed appointments. We remove that trip by bringing the physician to the living room. Bell Gardens has no hospital of its own, so patients are typically discharged from PIH Health Downey Hospital, St. Francis Medical Center in Lynwood, or Los Angeles General Medical Center. We coordinate with the discharge planning teams at each so a patient going home 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. Bell Gardens is one of the most heavily Spanish-speaking cities in the county, and our coordination team arranges interpreter support when scheduling so offloading instructions, dressing-change steps, and infection warning signs are understood by the patient and the family members providing daily care. 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.
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.