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Eisner Health Appoints Monica Gutierrez-McCarthy as New President + CEO

[Los Angeles, CA] — Eisner Health, a federally qualified health center in Los Angeles, and a leader in delivering compassionate, high-quality healthcare to underserved communities in Los Angeles, is pleased to announce the appointment of Monica Gutierrez-McCarthy, MS, as its new President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), effective December 16, 2024. Gutierrez-McCarthy has served as […]

Eisner Health and iFoster form Innovative Partnership Training 100 Emancipating Foster Youth for Careers in Public Health

(Los Angeles, CA – June 10, 2024) On May 21, Eisner Health welcomed 100 emancipated foster youth to our flagship location in downtown Los Angeles in partnership with iFoster (www.ifoster.org to begin training for in-person internships. This internship was made possible through the Public Health AmeriCorps Program (created by the CDC) to support programs that recruit, train, and nurture […]

Eisner Health Board of Directors Appoints Monica Gutierrez-McCarthy to Interim CEO

Effective March 15, 2024, CEO Warren Brodine resigned from his position as CEO of Eisner Health for reasons related to his family. Both Warren and the Board are grateful for Warren’s time at Eisner Health, especially during the pandemic. The Board appointed Monica Gutierrez-McCarthy as Interim CEO and asked she continue her role as COO […]

A Direct Path to Making a Meaningful Difference

In December 2021, Eisner Health partnered with The Change Reaction, a private foundation located in Los Angeles, creating an Angel Fund to provide micro-grants to patients and their families experiencing a short-term crisis. Our case management team has been empowered to use the Angel Fund to provide financial support to families in need, thereby amplifying […]

Micro-Grants for Caregivers: The Right to Rest and Recover Fund

It’s heartbreaking when our patients have to choose between working to earn a living or taking time off to take care of themselves or a loved one, often forgoing the day’s wages to do so. Eisner Health has partnered with Good+Foundation to provide caretakers and their families with microgrants through the Right to Rest and Recover Fund. Launched in November 2021, this new Fund has provided 100 caregivers […]

Reports from the Frontlines: Providing COVID-19 Vaccines in Los Angeles

As the COVID-19 virus threatened to overwhelm the nations’ hospitals in March 2020, community clinics served as the first line of defense for residents. The Eisner Health team worked on the front lines to combat the COVID-19 pandemic and keep our communities safe. As we near the end of 2021, Eisner Health continues to be […]

Eisner Health Partners with National Health Foundation to Support Healthcare Equity

Pictured:  A recovering patient getting some fresh air at the facility at the Pico-Union site. In March 2021, Eisner Health began a new partnership with the National Health Foundation’s Pico-Union Recuperative Care Center (NHF). Homeless patients who have recently been discharged from the hospital come to NHF, a 24-bed facility, for up to 3 weeks […]

Leeba Ruth Lessin bequeaths gift to Eisner Health’s Pediatric Department

Earlier this year, Eisner Health received a very generous estate gift from Leeba Lessin, a former pediatric patient of Eisner Health.  Her gift is dedicated to our pediatric department and a plaque will be placed in our downtown clinic to honor her life and her gift to Eisner Health.  Leeba Ruth Lessin was 62 when […]

Dedication of the Anita M. Baldwin Statue in Arcadia

Eisner Health was founded in Los Angeles, CA in March 1920 as the Anita M. Baldwin Hospital for Babies. Anita May Baldwin (1886-1939), from which we were named, was the daughter of Elias “Lucky” Baldwin, a successful business man, investor and real estate owner.  Born in 1886 in San Francisco, CA, Anita and her family […]

Eisner Health Receives Grant From S. Mark Taper Foundation

Grant will support care coordination efforts in hard-to-reach populations Eisner Health is grateful to announce a $75,000 unrestricted grant from the S. Mark Taper Foundation in support of care coordination efforts. These efforts are aimed at patients who have been hospitalized or had a visit to the emergency room, and help connect patients to after […]

As Families Drop Health Benefits Over ‘Public Charge’ Rule, Clinics Scramble to Respond

California Health Report By Claudia Boyd-Barrett • Aug 19, 2019 Soon after news broke last week of the Trump administration’s finalized “public charge” rule, benefit enrollers at the Eisner Health community clinic in downtown Los Angeles started getting phone calls. Patients enrolled in Medi-Cal, the state’s health insurance program for low-income people, and CalFresh, California’s food stamp […]

Cedars-Sinai Grants Address Homelessness and Other Critical Needs

Source: https://www.cedars-sinai.org/newsroom/cedars-sinai-increases-grants-for-the-homeless-and-others-in-need/ Cedars-Sinai Is More Than Doubling Its Commitment to Assist 108 Community-Based Organizations That Serve Vulnerable Populations Cedars-Sinai is contributing $15 million in grants to community organizations, with more than 20 grants going to groups that work on homeless and housing stability issues. Photo by Getty. Cedars-Sinai is deepening its commitment to the health and wellbeing […]

Gov. Newsom’s Pharmacy Plan May Harm Community Clinics

California Health Report By Warren J. Brodine • Jun 26, 2019 Photo credit: iStock. Julia is a patient at Eisner Health in Los Angeles who has diabetes and is uninsured. Prior to finding Eisner’s clinic, Julia, whose name has been changed to protect her privacy, was paying cash for insulin, the drug used to treat her high […]

Community Health Centers Deliver

“Community Health Centers Deliver,” produced by CHroniCles, a special project of the RCHN Community Health Foundation, the Geiger Gibson Program in Community Health Policy at the Milken Institute School of Public Health and Health Services at The George Washington University, and the National Association of Community Health Centers. In this video, health center leaders across […]

DHS Kicks the Ladder from Under Immigrants Seeking Green Cards

ROBIN UREVICH OCTOBER 15, 2018 The department’s proposed rule could devastate the health care of millions of immigrants. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen during a huearing of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on October 10, 2018 Capital & Main is an award-winning publication that reports from California on economic, […]

Homeland Security Kicks the Ladder from Under Immigrants Seeking Green Cards

Co-published by American Prospect Immigrants who use Medi-Cal, food stamps, housing assistance or Medicare prescription drug subsidies could be barred from obtaining green cards or visa extensions under a proposed rule the Department of Homeland Security published in the Federal Register October 10. Currently only those who use cash assistance or who require long-term institutional care […]

GOOD+ Foundation 2018 Daddy Boot Camp® Video

With support from GOOD+, Eisner Health launched Daddy Boot Camp® at the clinic last year to better support fathers as part of a whole family approach. Together, we have provided hundreds of fathers with the education and tools they need to be engaged dads. Eisner Health is proud to partner with GOOD+ Foundation to address father […]

Doctors And Dentists Welcome Pay Hike For Treating Low-Income Patients

  For the second year in a row, California is boosting pay for doctors and dentists who treat the state’s poorest residents as part of a legislative deal designed to improve health care access for patients. In the new state budget, which took effect Sunday, lawmakers allocated a little over $1 billion to pay higher […]