Los Angeles County Health Agency

Los Angeles County Health Agency
Agency overview
FormedNovember 5, 2015; 8 years ago (2015-11-05)
JurisdictionLos Angeles County
Employees31,887 (2016)
Annual budgetUS$6.942 billion (2016)
Agency executive
  • Earl Fred Leaf, Director (2019)
Child agencies
Websitehealthagency.lacounty.gov at the Wayback Machine (archived September 16, 2019)
Los Angeles County Alliance for Health Integration
FormationFebruary 18, 2020; 4 years ago (2020-02-18)
TypeAlliance
Parent organization
Staff (2023)
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Websiteceo.lacounty.gov/healthcare-integration/ Edit this at Wikidata

The Los Angeles County Alliance for Health Integration is the term used by Los Angeles County to refer to the ongoing integration efforts of its three health departments. Previously, the Los Angeles County Health Agency (sometimes stylized as Health Agency of Los Angeles) was the title of a Los Angeles County agency composed of the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health, and the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health and tasked in 2015 by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors with the coordination of all health related activities in the County.[1] These health departments, sometimes collectively referred to as the Health Agency, remain among the United States' largest and the agency was established to coordinate and streamline the county's physical health, behavioral health, and public health care services, programs, and policies under a single integrated system of care.[2][3]

Beginning in 2020, integration efforts between the departments continued through the newly-formed Alliance for Health Integration. Since March 2023 the AHI office has not been independently staffed although integration efforts of the three health departments remain a Board-Directed Priority and are still referred to as AHI efforts.[4] The continuing AHI reports made to the Board are now delivered by the Department of Health Services.[5]

  1. ^ "Chapter 2.73 - LOS ANGELES COUNTY HEALTH AGENCY". Los Angeles County Code. Municode. Retrieved 31 October 2016.
  2. ^ "LA County Health Agency" (PDF). Integration Advisory Board. November 23, 2015. Retrieved 31 October 2016.
  3. ^ "Health Integration". County of Los Angeles. 2015. Retrieved 31 October 2016.
  4. ^ Fesia Davenport (March 6, 2024). 2030 Strategic Plan (PDF) (Report). Los Angeles County. Retrieved 31 July 2024.
  5. ^ Christina Ghaly, MD (August 9, 2023). Board Motion Quarterly Reports (PDF) (Report). Los Angeles County. Retrieved 31 July 2024.