Lakewood Regional Medical Center

What Lakewood Regional Medical Center does

Lakewood Regional Medical Center is a community hospital located at 3700 East South Street in Lakewood, California, originally founded in 1972. The facility operates a 24-hour emergency department and holds designation as a STEMI receiving center, providing time-critical cardiac intervention—including emergency angioplasty—for ST-elevation myocardial infarction patients. In March 2024, the hospital was acquired by UCI Health—Orange County's only academic health system and the clinical enterprise of the University of California, Irvine—as part of Tenet Healthcare's Pacific Coast Network divestiture. It now operates under the brand UCI Health — Lakewood.

As part of UCI Health's integrated network, the hospital provides patients access to academic medicine, clinical trials, specialty referrals, and the broader UCI Health care continuum. UCI Health has expanded into a 1,461-bed health system spanning six facilities—UCI Health Orange, UCI Health Irvine, UCI Health Irvine Rehabilitation Hospital, and four community network hospitals (Fountain Valley, Lakewood, Los Alamitos, and Placentia-Linda)—with a growing ambulatory care network serving approximately 5.6 million people across Orange County, western Riverside County, and southeast Los Angeles County. The Lakewood facility's location extends UCI Health's geographic reach into southeast Los Angeles County.

Revenue is generated through emergency medical services, inpatient care, diagnostic services, and specialized cardiac care, billed via insurance plans, Medicare, Medicaid, and self-pay. Patient acquisition occurs primarily through geographic catchment and emergency department access, supported by UCI Health's digital presence, MyChart patient portal, clinical trial recruitment, the Live Well blog, and community health programs. Financial assistance and price transparency tools are available to qualifying patients.

Name

Lakewood Regional Medical Center

Legal name

UCI Health — Lakewood

Website

https://lakewoodregional.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1976

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

501–1,000 employees

Short description

Lakewood Regional Medical Center is a community hospital in Lakewood, California, operating as a designated STEMI receiving center for critical cardiac care and 24-hour emergency services. Now UCI Health — Lakewood following its March 2024 acquisition.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Lakewood

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Healthcare Services Delivery: The hospital generates revenue through emergency medical services, inpatient care, diagnostic services, and specialized cardiac care. As a STEMI receiving center, it provides critical heart care including emergency angioplasty and related cardiac interventions.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Lakewood Regional Medical Center operates as a community hospital providing 24-hour emergency medical services, inpatient care, and specialized cardiac intervention as a designated STEMI receiving center for critical heart patients. Following its March 2024 acquisition by UCI Health, the facility serves patients through the broader UCI Health academic health system, offering access to research-backed medical practices and a network of specialists.

Product overview

Lakewood Regional Medical Center was formerly operated by Tenet Healthcare as part of its Pacific Coast Network. In March 2024, UCI Health acquired this facility along with three other hospitals (Fountain Valley Regional Hospital, Los Alamitos Medical Center, and Placentia-Linda Hospital). The hospital provides emergency medicine services including designated STEMI receiving center for critical heart patients. Under UCI Health's network, patients have access to UCI Health's comprehensive medical services, clinical trials, and academic healthcare system. The source data does not contain specific product/technology details for this facility as a standalone entity.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Emergency Department Services

Named customers1 record

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• UC Irvine (UCI)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 March 2024UCI Health is the clinical enterprise of the University of California, Irvine. Powered by UC Irvine, UCI Health serves patients through excellence in patient care, research, and medical education. The academic health system leverages UCI's research capabilities and medical education programs.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves2 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Fountain Valley Regional Hospital: Sister facility co-acquired with Lakewood from Tenet's Pacific Coast Network in March 2024 and now operating under UCI Health as a community hospital in Orange County — directly comparable in size, service mix, and operating model.
• Los Alamitos Medical Center: Co-acquired community hospital now under UCI Health, located adjacent to Lakewood in the same southeast LA / Orange County market with similar emergency and inpatient service offerings.
• Placentia-Linda Hospital: Fourth community hospital in the same UCI Health Pacific Coast Network acquisition, located in northern Orange County with comparable community-hospital scope and emergency/inpatient orientation.

Regional players

• MemorialCare Long Beach Medical Center: Major nonprofit regional hospital serving the same southeast LA County catchment as Lakewood, with comparable emergency and cardiac services and overlapping patient geography.
• PIH Health Downey Hospital: Regional acute-care hospital serving the Downey / southeast LA County market with overlapping emergency and cardiac care capabilities, comparable in scale and community-hospital orientation.
• Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center: Regional Catholic-system hospital serving the South Bay / Long Beach area with comparable emergency and cardiac services, directly competing for inpatient and ED volume.

Broad incumbents

• Cedars-Sinai Medical Center: Large Los Angeles academic health system serving the broader LA market. Overlaps with Lakewood on tertiary cardiac and emergency services but operates at significantly greater scale and subspecialty depth.
• Kaiser Permanente Downey Medical Center: Vertically integrated payer-provider facility in the same Lakewood-adjacent market, competing on emergency, inpatient, and cardiac services through a closed-network model.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/UCIrvineHealth
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/lakewood-regional-medical-center
• Instagraminstagram.com/ucihealth

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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