14850 Roscoe Blvd.
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14850 Roscoe
Panorama City
CA, 91402
(800)608-4624
(800)608-4MCH
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Introducing
Mission Community Hospital's Campus at San Fernando for Community Health and Education
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At Mission Community Hospital’s campus in the City of San Fernando something exciting and unprecedented is unfolding. Beloved by generations of neighborhood families the campus was old and in need of prohibitively expensive earthquake safety upgrades to continue as a hospital.
Mission’s Board of Directors faced two choices. One was to close the facility and give up on the community Mission has been serving for more than 90 years. The other choice was to keep the facility open but modify its uses so that extensive and very costly earthquake upgrades would not be necessary.
Diabetes is the Significant Health Need
Every community assessment of health need since 2000 has concluded that removing barriers to affordable dental treatment and to treatment for diabetes are the priority health needs in the northeast San Fernando Valley.
Our Board Decides
Mission’s Board of Directors considered the diabetes crisis as it considered right and best uses for Mission’s San Fernando campus. Our Board did not want to abandon this valuable community health asset. Following many months of discussion with campus neighbors and City of San Fernando elected officials, considering the diabetes crisis and the Hospital’s mission, our Board chose to dedicate the campus to a wholly new purpose and the San Fernando Community Campus for Health and Education was born!
The San Fernando Community Campus for Health and Education
When the Campus opened for community service in November 2005 it became the first-of-its-kind community health and teaching resource in the nation to focus on diabetes and the quality-of-life endangering impacts of diabetes: declining dental health, vision and mobility. The UCLA School of Dentistry, Southern California College of Optometry and colleges of Podiatric medicine are partnering with Mission to provide clinical and educational services at the Campus. University and college faculty and advanced dental and optometry students deliver the services.
Programs at the Campus teach children, adults and families about causes of diabetes, how the disease injures and debilitates, what individuals and families can do to reduce risk of diabetes, and how diabetes is prevented, reversed and early controlled with physical activity, healthy diet and eating habits and weight loss.
Our response to Diabetes
Dental, vision and foot care services at the Campus focus on preserving quality-of-life by treating unmanaged diabetes as early as possible so as to avoid such terrible consequences as
Vision loss and blindness,
Gum disease, bone loss and tooth loss,
Nerve and tissue damage: foot wounds that won’t heal kill surrounding
tissue and may ultimately require amputation of the toes, foot or even the leg to save
the diabetic person’s life
The Dental Teaching Clinic is now open. The Vision Teaching Clinic opens in January 2006. The Podiatry–foot wound care Teaching Clinic opens in the Spring of 2006 as does the Campus’ unique “Cooking for Nutrition, Health and Diabetes Prevention Center.”
Affordable clinical services are provided and charitable funds are available to cover the cost of care for those in need but without the ability to pay. The charitable fund is established by private philanthropic foundations and caring individuals. The Campus-based dental, vision and podiatry programs also participate in Medi-Cal.
For additional information please contact the San Fernando Community Campus for Health and Education at 818.365.5059.
The Campus is located at 732 Mott Street (the intersection of Chatsworth Avenue and Mott Street), San Fernando, California 91340. Other organizations housed at the Campus include Partners in Care Foundation (818-837-3775; www.picf.org), UCLA Dental Teaching Clinic (818-837-0398; http://uclasod.dent.ucla.edu), and Southern California School of Optometry Vision Teaching Clinic (818.365.5059; www.scco.edu).
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Mission Community Hospital
San Fernando Campus
732 Mott Street
San Fernando, CA 91340
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