Several hospitals in and around the City of Manhattan Beach serve our citizens' medical needs. These hospitals, privately owned extensions of health care providers, work with the community to provide you with speedy and reliable medical assistance. The major hospitals include:

• Little Company of Mary Hospital
• Torrance Memorial Medical Center
• Kaiser Permanente South Bay Medical Center Hospital
• Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
• Long Beach Memorial Medical Center
• Martin Luther King, Jr.- Harbor Hospital

Emergency situations can place you at any one of these hospitals. Be sure to check with your family doctor or health care provider to find out which hospital you should go to in non-emergency situations.

Beach Cities Health District
Beach Cities Health District (BCHD) is a healthcare district focused on preventive health and serves the communities of Hermosa Beach, Manhattan Beach and Redondo Beach. Established in 1955 as a public agency, it offers an extensive range of dynamic health and wellness programs, with innovative services and facilities to promote health and prevent diseases across the lifespan.

Focusing on wellness, not sickness, encourages people to make wiser healthcare decisions. Preventative causes of illness and death, like tobacco smoking, poor diet and physical inactivity, are estimated to be responsible for nearly a million deaths annually—almost 40 percent of total yearly mortality in the United States. According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), about 90 percent of today’s healthcare costs are for treating people with chronic yet preventable diseases. BCHD’s wellness and healthy living programs and services are aimed at making prevention an integral part of the classrooms, workplace and homes of the beach cities.

To enhance community health through partnerships, programs and services for people who live and work in Hermosa, Manhattan and Redondo Beach.

Sometimes those living with Alzheimer’s, dementia or autism go missing. Los Angeles County is proud to partner with Project Lifesaver to help find them when it happens.

Project Lifesaver provides a voluntary system of trackable bracelets for at-risk individuals. The bracelet works by emitting a radio frequency (RF) signal every couple of seconds.

When an individual wearing a bracelet goes missing, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deploys a specially equipped team to assist with search and rescue. Weather permitting, the Sheriff’s Department can also deploy helicopter with receivers to assist the ground search team and help expedite locating the missing person.

When the individual wanders, caregivers are asked to quickly call 911 and advise the operator that the missing person is wearing a Project Lifesaver bracelet. The bracelet is not monitored until the person is reported missing.

To apply for a Project Lifesaver bracelet in Los Angeles County, please visit the L.A. Found website.

Other Technologies

There are other solutions available (such as on cellular, GPS or a combination of technologies) to help with wandering. If you are considering technology to help keep your loved one safe, we encourage you to investigate to determine the best fit for your family’s needs.

For a list of solutions available, please visit the L.A. Found Other Tracking Technologies.