Palos Verdes Estates is the oldest and most exclusive of the four cities on the Palos Verdes Peninsula, a planned coastal community of about 13,000 people laid out in the 1920s around Malaga Cove Plaza, with winding roads climbing the bluffs above the Pacific. It has one of the oldest population profiles in Los Angeles County — a median age past 50 and roughly a quarter of residents over 65 — and a low diabetes rate, so the wounds our clinicians treat here are driven overwhelmingly by age: post-surgical wounds after joint replacements and vascular surgery, venous leg ulcers, and pressure injuries in homebound seniors. Our licensed physicians and nurse practitioners visit patients throughout the peninsula community: the coastal enclave of Lunada Bay, the historic center at Malaga Cove, the flatter streets of Valmonte near the Torrance border, the hillside homes of Montemalaga, and the estates along the Palos Verdes Drive coastal corridor. This is challenging terrain for a patient in active wound treatment — steep, winding streets, long driveways, hillside lots, and large homes with multiple levels and staircases. For an 80-year-old recovering from surgery or living with a chronic leg wound, simply getting down to a car and driving the twisting roads off the hill to a wound clinic in Torrance is a real deterrent to keeping weekly appointments. Bringing the physician to the home removes that obstacle. The peninsula includes established Mandarin- and Korean-speaking households alongside its longtime residents, and adult children often coordinate a parent's care from a distance. When clear instructions are essential, our coordination team arranges interpreter support at scheduling so dressing-change steps and infection warning signs are understood by everyone involved in care at home. Palos Verdes Estates has no hospital on the peninsula, so we coordinate with the hospitals just off the hill — Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center and Torrance Memorial Medical Center in Torrance, and Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center in San Pedro. We work with their discharge planning teams so patients leaving with a surgical wound, pressure injury, or diabetic ulcer transition to physician-led care at home without a gap, and wound measurements, photographs, and notes go back to the discharging team and the patient's primary care physician after every visit. Visits are typically covered under Medicare Part B, Medicare Advantage, and most commercial plans, and our coordination line at 877-545-1300 is open 24/7.
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.