Boyle Heights is the heart of Mexican-American Los Angeles — a large, dense neighborhood just east of the Los Angeles River, centered on Mariachi Plaza and the historic commercial corridors of First Street and Cesar Chavez Avenue. It is an overwhelmingly Latino, largely Spanish-speaking community, and diabetes runs high here, which shapes the wounds our clinicians see: diabetic foot ulcers are, by a wide margin, the most common reason a Boyle Heights family calls Healix360, and the fear behind those calls is usually amputation of an aging parent's foot or leg. Our licensed physicians and nurse practitioners see patients throughout Boyle Heights: the blocks around Mariachi Plaza, the Hollenbeck neighborhood near the park, the Pico-Aliso area, and the apartments and family homes along First Street and Cesar Chavez. Many households here are multi-generational, with adult children working long hours and grandparents managing chronic conditions at home. For a diabetic parent whose foot ulcer needs to stay offloaded, being loaded into a car and driven to a hospital wound clinic every week — and waiting there for hours — is exactly the barrier that lets the wound worsen. We remove it by bringing the physician to the family's living room. Adventist Health White Memorial anchors care in Boyle Heights, with Los Angeles General Medical Center (the former LAC+USC) just across the river and Kaiser Permanente's Los Angeles Medical Center nearby. We coordinate with the discharge planning teams at each so a patient leaving 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. Spanish is the dominant language in most Boyle Heights households, 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 — nothing lost in translation, which matters enormously in diabetic limb preservation. 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.