Los Angeles Family Planning Clinics

If you're in Los Angeles and need family planning supplies, information or advice, there are many local family planning clinics in which you can receive what you need. With more than a dozen clinics in the Los Angeles region, you shouldn't have to travel far to receive care or supplies.

What is a Family Planning Clinic?

A family planning clinic is a special health clinic that offers advice, care and education regarding sex, sexuality and the reproductive system.

Since having a baby is costly and requires much attention and time, planning a family and being educated on sex and reproductive health can prove to be helpful for everyone.

These clinics offer an array of services to people of all ethnic, religious and socioeconomic backgrounds, and can be found throughout the world.

What do Family Planning Clinics Offer?

Family planning clinics offer birth control services, STD testing, reproductive health exams, sex education, pregnancy testing, abortion, adoption and prenatal care referrals and in some cases, help with infertility.

Some family planning clinics offer emergency contraception and abortion services. Clinics that don't offer these services on-site will gladly refer patients who need these services to other local clinics that offer them.

Planned Parenthood of Los Angeles

The largest chain of family planning clinics in the city of Los Angeles is Planned Parenthood. The Planned Parenthood Federation of Los Angeles operates seven health clinics within the city.

These facilities are scattered throughout Los Angeles in many neighborhoods. Most clinics have staff on hand that speak Spanish, especially in areas where the Hispanic population is high. If you speak Spanish, rest assured that a local Planned Parenthood clinic will be able to help you with ease.

The Los Angeles Planned Parenthood locations are as follows, and an asterisk (*) signals that this particular location performs abortions on-site.

Eagle Rock Express Center
1578 W. Colorado Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90041
[phone]

East Los Angeles Medical Center
5068 Whittier Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90022
[phone]

S. Mark Taper Foundation Center for Medical Training *
400 W. 30th St.
Los Angeles, CA 90007
[phone]

Dorothy Hecht Center *
8520 S. Broadway
Los Angeles, CA 90003
[phone]

Hollywood Medical Center *
1014 1/2 N. Vermont Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90029
[phone]

Bixby Boyle Heights Center *
560 S. St. Louis St.
Los Angeles, CA 90033
[phone]

Bixby Medical Center *
1057 Kingston Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90033
[phone]

Family Planning Associates Medical Group (FPA)

Family Planning Associates Medical Group, or FPA, also operates family planning clinics in the Los Angeles Region.

All of FPA's clinics offer full family planning services alongside abortion care.

There are two FPA location in Los Angeles. They are:

601 S. Westmoreland Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90005
[phone]

12304 Santa Monica Blvd. #112
Los Angeles, CA 90025
[phone]

In addition to the city of Los Angeles, FPA also operates clinics in the nearby cities of Long Beach, Downey, Torrance and Rosemead.

Considerations

Family planning clinics accept most forms of health insurance, but you need not have insurance to receive care. If you are unable to pay for care or supplies, you cannot be turned away from a family planning clinic that operates under federal funding.

References

• Planned Parenthood of Los Angeles
• Family Planning Associates of L.A.
• NAP Overview of Family Planning and Title IV