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The Best of Both Worlds
Women and Children Benefit by Unique Access to Care
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It seems impossible for any news-savvy Angeleno to have escaped the media reminders
this past year of the difficulties surrounding low-income families and their access
to quality health care in Los Angeles County. The possibility of a shortfall in funding
for facilities and personnel was announced, debated, voted on and continues to plague
Los Angeles. Fortunately, there is some good news for children’s health care in
the Harbor area communities. Thanks to more than $800,000 in grants from the Unihealth
Foundation, the Wallis Foundation, Providence Health System and other friends, more
women and children will receive high quality health care. Best of all, they can do it
together in a unique “one-stop” clinic created by LCM.
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These gifts provided the opportunity for Little Company of Mary to add pediatric
care to its existing perinatal services, creating the newly opened Women and
Children’s Clinic of Little Company of Mary in Harbor City. Mary Odell,
Unihealth Foundation President, commented, “the Board’s focus is on
community health, and the strength of this program is that both women and children
can receive care in one location, when normally access to quality health care is so
limited in neighborhoods such as this.”
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For the clinic’s Pediatric Medical Director, Genesa Wagoner, MD, the opening
“aligns with my passion to provide high-quality health care to all. Access
to medical care is becoming harder to find due to budget cuts — there is
clearly a need to reach the under insured and MediCal families through this
clinic,” commented Wagoner.
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