Recognized in our community, across California, and nationally for our medical excellence, St. Vincent Medical Center provides a wide range of high quality services in a local setting. In addition to specialized centers of excellence, a sampling of other services offered by St. Vincent's listed below.
Ancillary Health Services
St. Vincent Medical Center's wide scope of medical services includes an alternative health center (Center for Health & Healing), wound care, orthopedics, ophthalmology, neurosurgery and urology, as well as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computed tomography (CT) laser surgery and physician referrals. Support services - from pastoral care and social services to physical and occupational therapy - are available to all patients.
Community Mammography Program
St. Vincent Medical Center operates a mobile mammography service that offers much-needed breast cancer screening and education to low-income women across Los Angeles.
St. Vincent Meals on Wheels
This program prepares more than 2,400 nutritious meals each day and delivers them across Los Angeles seven days-a-week, 365 days-a-year, to homebound seniors and others too frail to shop or cook. The program also offers sit-down meals to mobile seniors each afternoon at Precious Blood Catholic Church in Los Angeles.
Casa de Amigos de San Vicente
An on-campus community center that helps expand existing youth and family programs to include after-school tutoring, computer training, job referrals, group and family counseling, parenting classes, English language classes, gang-prevention seminars and more.
Clean, Green & Safe
Part of Casa de Amigos de San Vicente, this program helps local families fight back against crime and drugs through neighborhood watch and graffiti clean-ups. The program also organizes esteem-building youth activities including soccer teams, basketball teams, field trips and a community garden
Health Ministry Initiative
The Community Health Ministry Initiative takes healthcare information and screening services to churches, community agencies and faith-based organizations. We seek out those churches that wish to become a place of true health and healing, and work to create a strong partnership.