Q3 2020 | Los Angeles Medicine Magazine

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LACMA, Hyundai Partnership Brings Drive-Through Testing to Boyle Heights As much of the LACMA team was busy distributing PPE aims to remove barriers to healthcare for our Eastside to physicians, across town in Boyle Heights, a COVID-19 communities. I thank Hyundai Motor America and its U.S. testing site opened thanks to a partnership between Los dealers for their generous $100,000 donation that will Angeles County and the Los Angeles County Medical help bring services to residents who get tested at our Association and a generous donation from Hyundai COVID-19 testing site in Boyle Heights. I am grateful for Motor Corporation. their commitment to expanding access to services and “Thanks to the leadership of Dr. Hector Flores, our making sure all residents are safe and healthy.” Patient Care Foundation will participate in a COVID-19 “The Patient Care Foundation, the nonprofit arm of the testing program in Boyle Heights. Hyundai Motor Los Angeles County Medical Association, is dedicated to Corporation’s Hope On Wheels and the Consul General improving access to healthcare services for vulnerable of Israel also contributed to make the event a reality for communities. We are proud to partner with Hyundai many low-income families over the next two weeks,” Motor America, Hyundai Hope On Wheels, TELACU, Los LACMA CEO Gustavo Friederichsen said. “Through this Angeles County Supervisor Hilda L. Solis, the Consul collaborative, hundreds of residents with potential General of Israel also contributed and Total Testing COVID-19 symptoms can get tested at no charge over the Solutions to provide needed COVID-19 testing to the next two weeks.” community of Boyle Heights,” said Troy Elander, MD, chair, “When the U.S. first began to grapple with the Patient Care Foundation. COVID-19 pandemic in March, we knew testing would be our first line of defense,” said José Muñoz, president and CEO, Hyundai Motor North America. “We are pleased to continue funding our testing MEDI-CAL/M E D I C A R E strategy and support our neighbors MEDICAL PRACTICE PURCHASES, SALES AND MERGERS in Boyle Heights who have been disproportionately affected by the novel coronavirus.” “We know that hardworking families in East Los Angeles and Boyle Heights are more likely to live in multigenerational housing conditions and are more likely to work in essential service jobs that increase their Assisting physicians with exposure to the coronavirus, which legal issues for over three decades. is why I am committed to expanding access to COVID-19 testing, healthcare, Fenton Law Group, LLP and other services for all people,” said 1990 South Bundy Drive Suite 777 Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda Los Angeles, CA 90025 The brand physicians trust L. Solis. “This testing site is the result 310.444.5244 www.fentonlawgroup.com of a private-public partnership that

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