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Dignity Health Announces Brian Smolskis as New President and CEO of California Hospital Medical Center

Dignity Health Announces Brian Smolskis as New President and CEO of California Hospital Medical Center

California Hospital Medical Center Receives “LGBTQ+ Equality Leader” Recognition in 2024 Healthcare Equality Index

Dignity Health - California Hospital Medical Center (CHMC) has been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality Leader in the Human Rights Campaign Foundation

California Hospital Medical Center Presents “Heart of the City Wellness Festival”

California Hospital Medical Center (CHMC) has announced the launch of the inaugural Heart of the City Wellness Festival this Saturday, April 6 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Dignity Health Named to Newsweek’s America’s Greatest Workplaces 2024 for Diversity

This survey of over 220,000+ individuals included representation at over 1.5 million companies in America.

California Hospital Medical Center Awards $270,000 to Three Nonprofit Organizations through its Community Health Improvement Grant Program

California Hospital Medical Center has awarded $270,000 in community grants to three nonprofits in the Greater Los Angeles area that work to provide the community with critical health and human services.

U.S. News & World Report Names California Hospital Medical Center Among Best Hospitals 2023-2024 as High Performing

Dignity Health - California Hospital Medical Center has been named by U.S. News & World Report to its 2023-2024 Best Hospitals as a High Performing hospital for Congestive Heart Failure, COPD, Pneumonia, and Stroke.

California Hospital Medical Center Recognized with “Best in Class” Consumer Loyalty Designation

NRC Health is pleased to announce that Dignity Health – California Hospital Medical Center (CHMC) has been named to the annual Consumer Loyalty Best in Class list, the only loyalty-based hospital rankings.

CommonSpirit Health and Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science partner to diversify and grow nursing workforce

Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science (CDU), one of the nation’s four historically Black medical schools, and CommonSpirit Health, one of the nation’s largest nonprofit health systems, are responding to the national nursing shortage thro

California Hospital Medical Center receives LGBTQ+ equality recognition in 2022 Healthcare Equality Index (HEI)

California Hospital Medical Center has been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality Leader by the Human Rights Campaign which is the nation’s largest LGBTQ+ organization.

Prominent Health Systems Unite to Encourage Patients to Put Health First, Access Care When Needed

Dignity Health, Cedars Sinai, Kaiser Permanente, Keck Medicine of USC, Providence and UCLA Health Launch BetterTogether.Health "Life may be on pause. Your health isn't." Educational Campaign.

Dignity Health - California Hospital Medical Center Welcomes New President

Southern California Hospitals Provide more than $222 Million to Community

Serving the community is one of our highest priorities. Dignity Health Southern California's six hospitals annually report on community health programs, including the health needs being addressed, programs and measurable objectives, and the economic ...

Julie Sprengel to Lead New Southwest Division of CommonSpirit Health

Dignity Health has appointed Julie Sprengel, President for Dignity Health Southern California, to lead the new Southwest Division of CommonSpirit Health. The Southwest Division includes nine acute care hospitals and four micro-hospitals in Southern C...

Annual Heart of the City 5K Run/Walk in Downtown L.A. To Attract Nearly 3,000 Participants

The 7th Annual Heart of the City 5K Run/Walk, taking place on Saturday, March 30, will attract over 3,000 walkers, runners, and volunteers to the heart of downtown Los Angeles (DTLA in support of an essential community resource, Dignity Health - Cali...

California Hospital Medical Center Awards $147,195 to Three, Non-Profit Organizations through its Community Health Grant Program

Hope Street Margolis Family Center Supporters Raise $375,000 at Champions for Children Luncheon

Annual Event Helps Sustain the Center's Unique Programs That Inspire and Educate Downtown L.A. Children While Honoring Jonathan Club for Community Service

California Hospital Medical Center receives Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award

American Heart Association Award recognizes California Hospital Medical Center's commitment to quality stroke care

California Hospital Medical Center Earns a Spot on the NRC Health's Top 100 List for Consumer Loyalty

Dignity Health - California Hospital Medical Center (CHMC recently received the highest Consumer Loyalty Award of any Los Angeles-area hospital.

California Hospital Welcomes New Chief Nurse Executive Officer

Gertrude "Trudy" Johnson has been named chief nurse executive officer of Dignity Health California Hospital Medical Center (CHMC. She will serve as the primary liaison with the clinical staff, and implement strategies and tactics that improve the qua...

California Hospital Medical Center Receives $656,000 Grant from California Community Foundation to Support Coordinated Care Initiative

Dignity Health - California Hospital Medical Center (CHMC received a three-year grant of $656,000 from the California Community Foundation, a non-profit organization serving the communities in the Los Angeles County.

California Hospital Medical Center Honored for Environmental Sustainability by Practice Greenhealth

Dignity Health - California Hospital Medical Center received three awards from Practice Greenhealth, the nation's leading organization dedicated to environmental sustainability in health care.

California Hospital Names Joe Kim Chief Medical Officer

Dignity Health - California Hospital Medical Center announced the appointment of Joe Kim, MD, as chief medical officer.

California Hospital Foundation Presents Hidden in Plain Sight

Dignity Health - California Hospital Medical Center Foundation is producing the next South Park Speaker's Series Symposium and partnered with Ashton Kutcher's non-profit organization, Thorn, which focuses on human trafficking and ways to combat it us...

Star Wars Characters Descend Onto Metro Charter Elementary

Dignity Health is partnering with Kids for Peace to sponsor the 2017 Great Kindness Challenge, a global program that aims to inspire students to make a lifelong commitment to service and kindness.

Tis the Season for Higher Risk Heart Attack

Most of us wrap up the outgoing year and ring in the New Year with a crescendo of exciting-and occasionally stressful-fetes, feasts, and festivities.

Annual Heart of the City 5K Run

The fourth annual Heart of the City 5K Run/Walk will attract over 2,000 walkers, runners, and volunteers to the heart of Los Angeles to support an essential community resource: Dignity Health - California Hospital Medical Center (CHMC. Chelsey Crisp ...