CLINIC IN LITTLEROCK EXPANDS AVAILABILITY OF MEDICAL SERVICES.Byline: Karen Maeshiro Staff Writer LITTLEROCK - People living in Littlerock, Pearblossom, Llano lla·no n. pl. lla·nos A large, grassy, almost treeless plain, especially one in Latin America. [Spanish, plain, from Latin pl and Valyermo now have access to more medical care, with the opening of a primary care clinic in a former bank building in Littlerock. Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley Hospital and Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County opened the clinic - their third - as part of an ongoing effort to make medical services more accessible to people in outlying out·ly·ing adj. Relatively distant or remote from a center or middle: outlying regions. outlying Adjective far away from the main area Adj. 1. areas. ``This is a unique partnership between Antelope Valley Heath Care System and Los Angeles County to bring health care to an underserved area,'' said Paul Allemeier, Antelope Valley Hospital's vice president of planning, marketing and development. Antelope Valley Hospital and the county opened the partnership's first clinic in January 1998 at 15th Street East and Palmdale Boulevard, and the second one in Lake Los Angeles, at 16921 E. Ave. O, in May 1999. Those two clinics have logged 38,000 visits, said Tim Moore For other uses, see Tim and Moore (surname). People called Tim Moore include:
``The Littlerock Community Clinic is a model partnership between two public agencies, which have combined resources to improve access to health care for residents in southeast Antelope Valley,'' Moore said. The Littlerock clinic is housed in a former Bank of America
Bank of America (NYSE: BAC TYO: 8648 ) is the largest commercial bank in the United States in terms of deposits, and the largest company of its kind in the world. building in the 8200 block of Pearblossom Highway and is open from noon to 8 p.m. on Tuesdays and from 8 to 4 p.m. on Thursdays. Appointments can be scheduled by calling (661) 945-8382. Antelope Valley Hospital and county officials held a ribbon-cutting and grand opening ceremony Friday at the clinic, which opened Oct. 19. Antelope Valley Hospital is leasing 3,200 square feet in the single-story commercial building from Scattaglia-Crystalaire packers for $46,080 a year for five years and subleasing the space to the county at no charge. Antelope Valley Hospital also paid for $32,000 of the $152,000 worth of work done to convert the former bank to a clinic. The landlord paid the rest. The High Desert Hospital auxiliary auxiliary In grammar, a verb that is subordinate to the main lexical verb in a clause. Auxiliaries can convey distinctions of tense, aspect, mood, person, and number. contributed more than $9,000 toward the purchase of equipment and artwork for the clinic. Under the partnership, the Antelope Valley Hospital pays for the building and improvements, and the county provides physicians and staffing. As in the other two clinics, the Littlerock clinic provides children and adult patients with checkups, physician examinations, preventive health services health services Managed care The benefits covered under a health contract and treatment of illnesses. |
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