Los Angeles Jewish Health

Los Angeles Jewish Health, previously known as Los Angeles Jewish Home, is a non-profit provider for senior healthcare services in Los Angeles, California.^[1] Over the past century, the organisation has focused on providing healthcare services for seniors in the greater Los Angeles area.

History

On Passover, 1912, the Los Angeles Jewish Home began when a small group of neighbors gave shelter to five homeless Jewish men.^[2]

In 1916, the first permanent structure for the Home was purchased in the Boyle Heights section of downtown Los Angeles. The Jewish Home made plans for a facility in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles. This facility became known as the California Home for the Aged.^[3]

In the 1940s and 1950s, the Home built new facilities and senior residences in Reseda in the San Fernando Valley. The new site became known as the Grancell Village Campus.

In 1972, the California Home for the Aged was renamed Menorah Village. Four years later, the original Jewish Home for the Aged moved to a new location in the Reseda area of the San Fernando Valley. The two San Fernando Valley locations merged, becoming the Jewish Home for the Aging of greater Los Angeles and, ultimately, the Los Angeles Jewish Home.^[4]

Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, the home constructed new clinics, residences, and facilities as the resident population grew. The Victory Boulevard Campus was named the Eisenberg Village Campus.

In 2002, the Goldenberg•Ziman Special Care Center for Alzheimer's disease and age-related dementia opened.^[5]

In 2007, the Joyce Eisenberg-Keefer Medical Center on the Grancell Village Campus opened. The complex had an acute psychiatric hospital, 239 nursing beds, and a geriatric research center.^[6]

In 2012, Brandman Centers for Senior Care (BCSC) opened, a Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE).^[7]

In 2017, the Gonda Healthy Aging Westside Campus opened, featuring Fountainview at Gonda Westside, a CCRC community in the Playa Vista area of West Los Angeles. It contained 175 independent living Brandman Residences and 24 residential units for assisted living and memory care.^[8] The facility was sold to Senior Resource Group in 2024.^[9]

In 2022, the Los Angeles Jewish Home was renamed to Los Angeles Jewish Health.^[10]

Services offered

Los Angeles Jewish Health's Reseda campuses offer independent living, residential care, skilled nursing care, short-term rehabilitation, and Alzheimer's disease and dementia care. Los Angeles Jewish Health's Gonda Healthy Aging Westside Campus in Playa Vista offers independent living as well as assisted living and memory care.

The Brandman Centers for Senior Care provide quality medical care that promotes independence for seniors through PACE, which coordinates and provides all needed preventive, primary, acute, and long-term care services to older adults so they may live at home in their communities. The PACE model of care revolves around a fully integrated, interdisciplinary team of doctors, nurses, therapists, social workers, dietitians, drivers, and others who provide direct care and services to meet each program participant's needs.^[11]

The Auerbach Geriatric Psychiatry Unit focuses on providing care for various conditions, such as bipolar disorder, depression, and schizophrenia.^[12]

The Goldenberg-Ziman Special Care Center provides nursing care for seniors with Alzheimer's disease and age-related dementia.^[13]

Annual events

Los Angeles Jewish Health hosts a Mothers Day celebration each year for each mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and great-great-grandmother. The celebration began over two decades ago.^[14]

Los Angeles Jewish Health hosts an annual day-long golfing event, to raise money for the organisation.^[15]