Los Angeles County-University of Southern California Medical Center Foundation, Inc.

The LAC+USC Medical Center Foundation envisions a Los Angeles County where all residents have access to the healthcare, social services, education and environmental factors that enable them to live their healthiest life.

The Foundation works towards its mission, vision and goals by providing a range of supportive programs and services to the LAC+USC Medical Center, LA County agencies, non-profit organizations, mission-aligned initiatives, community groups, and Los Angeles County residents. We offer research, fiscal, and administrative support to qualified partners and coordinate health-promoting, community-facing activities as a project manager, Fiscal Sponsor, backbone organization, and collaborative convener.

The LAC+USC Medical Center Foundation is well positioned to accomplish its work through its location on the campus of the LAC+USC Medical Center, its dedicated leadership, strong governance, and effective management systems.

2016-17 was a year of significant growth at the LAC+USC Medical Center Foundation. We continued our role as a strong partner and supporter of the LAC+USC Medical Center's mission and priorities and dedicated our work to enhancing patient care, fostering community-based wellness strategies, and strengthening population health and wellbeing.
Our primary community-benefit project, The Wellness Center (TWC), served 4,629 new clients resulting in more than 13,000 enrolled in TWC's database and receiving services. 8,218 clients received individual health and legal advocacy services, a 40% increase over the prior year. 1,084 clients were enrolled in individual therapy, a 20% increase. And 5,812 clients received chronic disease services, including participation in Evidence-Based Programs, where we tripled the number of programs offered, expanded our number of participants by 400%, and had a nearly 700% increase in the number of program completers. We continue to provide a steady stream of exercise classes and cooking classes, most of which are full to capacity. We have increased our total integrative health service delivery by 600% from last year to this year after launching the program in March 2016.
We supported the local health services infrastructure by managing 42,000 square feet of space in the Historic General Hospital located on the medical center campus. This space provides rent-free offices for 13 community-based nonprofit partners as well as event spaces, meeting rooms and classrooms, including a dance/exercise studio, a demonstration kitchen, and outdoor fitness areas, children's playground, and a demonstration garden. We hosted nearly 2,500 activities (events, meetings and classes) with an estimated number of 65,000 visits, all of which was provided free-of-charge to organizers and attendees.
We also grew services as a fiscal sponsor, adding new programs including the LAC+USC Medical Center Arts Council, the Committee of Interns and Residents Quality Improvement Projects Fund, and the Boyle Heights-Building Healthy Communities project. Collectively these projects support the health and wellness mission of the Medical Center and the Foundation, and expand the scope of services we provide to patients, clients, providers, and the community-at-large.