Inner-City Hospital Inspires a Healthy Community With Rhythm

‘You have key partners in the community that will work with you. Where you have weaknesses, they have positives.’

The spirit of service—for a small clinic started in 1913 to provide free care to Los Angeles (LA)—lives today in the servant-leader aspirations of 2019 Baldrige Award recipient Adventist Health White Memorial (AHWM), a 353-bed, safety-net hospital.

The community of two million people that AHWM serves is young, homogenous, and economically challenged. In addition, the hospital is surrounded by 35 active gangs, and it watched as many of its neighboring healthcare organizations closed or downsized during the Covid-19 pandemic.

East LA community served by Adventist Health White Memorial. Credit: Adventist Health White Memorial

But these challenges have not stopped AHWM from believing that it could transform the health experience of its communities.

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Inner-City Hospital Inspires a Healthy Community With Rhythm

‘You have key partners in the community that will work with you. Where you have weaknesses, they have positives.’

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