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PIH Health Hospital - Whittier is a hospital in Whittier, California.

Founded in 1959 as Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital, it has been managed by the nonprofit InterHealth Corporation since the mid-1980s.

The organization changed its name to PIH Health in 2012.

PIH Health also operates PIH Health Hospital - Downey which was formerly known as Downey Regional Medical Center.

PIH Health operates an office in Uptown Whittier, and several other medical offices elsewhere in the region that were formerly branded as Bright Medical.

PIH Health is the largest employer in Whittier, and one of the largest in that region of Los Angeles County.

Whittier is a city in Southern California located within Los Angeles County, California.

As of the 2010 United States Census, the city had a population of 85,331, reflecting an increase of 1,631 from the 83,680 counted in the 2000 Census, and encompasses.

Like nearby Montebello, the city constitutes part of the Gateway Cities.

Whittier was incorporated in February 1898 and became a charter city in 1955.

The city is named for the poet John Greenleaf Whittier and is home to Whittier College.

Health is the level of functional and metabolic efficiency of a living organism.

In humans it is the ability of individuals or communities to adapt and self-manage when facing physical, mental or social changes.

The World Health Organization (WHO) defined health in its broader sense in its 1948 constitution as "a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity." This definition has been subject to controversy, in particular as lacking operational value, the ambiguity in developing cohesive health strategies, and because of the problem created by use of the word "complete".

Other definitions have been proposed, among which a recent definition that correlates health and personal satisfaction.

Urgent care is a category of walk-in clinic focused on the delivery of ambulatory care in a dedicated medical facility outside of a traditional emergency room.

Urgent care centers primarily treat injuries or illnesses requiring immediate care, but not serious enough to require an ER visit.

Urgent care centers are distinguished from similar ambulatory healthcare centers such as emergency departments and convenient care clinics by their scope of conditions treated and available facilities on-site.

While urgent care centers are usually not open 24-hours a day, 70% of centers in the United States open by 8:00 am or earlier and 95% close after 7:00 pm.

Health care or healthcare is the maintenance or improvement of health via the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in human beings.

Healthcare is delivered by health professionals (providers or practitioners) in allied health professions, chiropractic, physicians, physician associates, dentistry, midwifery, nursing, medicine, optometry, pharmacy, psychology, and other health professions.

It includes the work done in providing primary care, secondary care, and tertiary care, as well as in public health.