Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Offers After-Hours Urgent Care Services in Arcadia
LOS ANGELES (January 9, 2023) – Children's Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) is now offering urgent care services at its Arcadia Specialty Care Center, providing a convenient care option for families across the San Gabriel Valley. The Arcadia urgent care clinic is staffed by CHLA’s own world-class pediatric Emergency Department (ED) physicians and clinicians.
“At Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, we are constantly exploring new and improved avenues to further our mission of creating hope and building healthier futures for children,” says Lara Khouri, MBA, MPH, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. “We are thrilled to be able to expand the pediatric outpatient services we provide in our Arcadia Specialty Care Center with this new urgent care offering, giving San Gabriel Valley families after-hours access to pediatric ED specialists from the top-ranked children’s hospital on the West Coast at a neighborhood clinic closer to home.”
CHLA’s care team at the Arcadia urgent care clinic will communicate visit details with the child’s primary pediatrician and, when needed, can schedule follow-up appointments with CHLA’s nationally ranked subspecialists (often right back at the Arcadia location). CHLA’s pediatric experts can care and provide for:
- broken bones and other orthopedic injuries
- flu symptoms or cough
- asthma attacks
- diarrhea or vomiting
- rapid testing for strep throat and COVID-19
- diagnostic tests, including X-ray and urinalysis
“It’s important for families who seek care in Emergency Departments (ED) to know that priority for treatment will go first to patients who need care for serious illnesses or injuries,” says Alan Nager, MD, MHA, Director of the Division of Emergency and Transport Medicine at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. “Urgent care clinics in the community often allow patients to be seen sooner and faster than through a busy ED, which is why we are thrilled to provide CHLA-caliber urgent care services in the San Gabriel Valley.”
Not sure when you should take your child to the emergency room, urgent care or call the doctor? Check out the CHLA blog.
The CHLA Arcadia Specialty Care Center is located at 468 E Santa Clara St., Arcadia, CA 91016. The urgent care clinic is open seven days a week – weekdays from 4 p.m. to midnight, and weekends from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. New and existing CHLA patients are both welcome, including walk-ins, and all contracted insurance plans will be accepted.
About Children's Hospital Los Angeles
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles is at the forefront of pediatric medicine, offering acclaimed care to children from across the world, the country and the greater Southern California region. Founded in 1901, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles is the largest provider of care for children in Los Angeles County, the No. 1 pediatric hospital in California and the Pacific region, and is consistently ranked in the top 10 in the nation on U.S. News & World Report’s Honor Roll of Best Children’s Hospitals. Clinical expertise spans the pediatric care continuum for newborns to young adults, from everyday preventive medicine to the most medically complex cases. Inclusive, compassionate, child- and family-friendly clinical care is led by physicians who are faculty members of the Keck School of Medicine of USC. Physicians translate the new discoveries, treatments and cures proven through the work of scientists in The Saban Research Institute of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles—among the top 10 children’s hospitals for National Institutes of Health funding—to bring answers to families faster. The hospital also is home to one of the largest training programs for pediatricians in the United States. To learn more, follow us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube and Twitter, and visit our blog at CHLA.org/blog.
