Childbirth Education

The medical center provides hospital services for people of all ages in Los Angeles County. Services include cancer services, early intervention for children with disabilities/delays, emergency room services, geriatric services, a neonatal intensive care unit, family planning services, health education, support groups for cancer and diabetes, mental health services, and pediatrics. Age restrictions apply for some services; and some services are targeted, but not restricted, to older adults.

Specialized services include a cleft palate program, breast self-examination education, and a speech disorders program.

Early intervention is available for children from birth to age three who have a developmental delay. The focus may be on development of fine and gross motor skills, adaptive behavior, language, cognition, play and/or personal and social behavior. Children who are diagnosed as high risk, failure to thrive, or environmentally deprived infants; who have cerebral palsy, Down's Syndrome, head trauma, seizure disorders, a hydrocephalus condition, or fetal substance syndrome; or who are post-meningitis are among those who may be assisted.

The center also provides a Child Life program to assist hospitalized children to maintain normal living patterns and to deal with the anxiety and stress that being hospitalized for various periods of time can cause.