Whois & Analysis for uclahealth.org

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.

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels"; Spanish), officially the City of Los Angeles and often known by its initials L.A., is the cultural, financial, and commercial center of Southern California.

With a census-estimated 2015 population of 3,971,883, it is the second-most populous city in the United States (after New York City) and the most populous city in California.

Located in a large coastal basin surrounded on three sides by mountains reaching up to and over, Los Angeles covers an area of about The city is the focal point of the larger Los Angeles metropolitan area and the Greater Los Angeles Area region, which contain 13 million and over 18 million people, respectively, making it one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world as well as the second-largest in the United States and the densest urban area in the United States.

Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated county in the United States.

The city's inhabitants are referred to as Angelenos.

UCLA Health System is an academic medical center which comprises a number of hospitals and an extensive primary care network in the Los Angeles region.

Together, the network aims to achieve coverage for two million lives: "every 4 miles 4 PCPs plus a 50,000 sq.

ft.

hub within 15 miles".

As a regional health provider, it benefits from the academic affiliation offered by the UCLA campus, as this increases its status in the medical marketplace.

For instance, the symbiotic relationship with the campus allowed the creation of nominal assistant professor-level appointments for primary care physicians, but this practice has now been limited because of opposition from the academic community.

In 2007, UCLA Health founded Operation Mend, a program for treating military veterans who were wounded in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

In 2016 Operation Mend received a grant from Wounded Warrior Project to expand its offering to include PTSD treatment and became part of the Warrior Care Network.