Big Bear Lake is a mountain resort city high in the San Bernardino Mountains, at nearly 7,000 feet on the south shore of the lake. It's a small, year-round community with an older population — better than one in five residents is a senior — spread across the Village, Boulder Bay, Fox Farm, and Moonridge, with steep roads, winter snow, and a single small hospital serving the whole valley. That combination makes wound care uniquely difficult here: venous leg ulcers, pressure injuries, and slow-healing surgical wounds among longtime mountain residents, plus diabetic foot ulcers where the isolation raises the stakes. Our licensed physicians and nurse practitioners see patients across the valley: Big Bear Lake Village and the shoreline neighborhoods of Boulder Bay, the residential streets of Fox Farm and Moonridge near the Alpine Zoo, and the homes running toward Sugarloaf and the Bear Mountain area. Bear Valley Community Hospital serves the mountain, but complex and specialty care means the long, winding drive down the grade to San Bernardino or Loma Linda. For an older patient with a chronic leg ulcer or a healing surgical wound, that descent — treacherous in winter snow and ice — is exactly the barrier that lets a wound stall between visits. We remove it by bringing the physician to the home. Discharge coordination runs through Bear Valley Community Hospital on the mountain, with more complex cases handled down the hill at St. Bernardine Medical Center in San Bernardino and Loma Linda University Medical Center. We coordinate with their discharge planning teams so a patient leaving with a surgical wound, pressure injury, or 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 primary care physician after each visit. Our coordination team arranges interpreter support when scheduling for households that need it, so dressing-change steps, offloading 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.
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.