Inpatient Care

At UCLA Health - Santa Monica Medical Center, UCLA Geriatricians provide holistic hospital geriatric care for older patients on a special Geriatric Medicine unit with dedicated staff and resources.

These staff members include:

• faculty geriatricians and UCLA resident physicians in training
• nurses with special training in caring for the geriatric population
• physical, occupational and speech therapists
• pharmacists
• dietitians
• social workers
• case managers
• spiritual care providers 

Our case management team of social workers and case managers assist in short- and long-term care planning. When patients are admitted to our inpatient service, the geriatric faculty communicates with their primary care physicians on a daily basis. We coordinate care through the various transitions that follow hospitalization, including transitioning to post-hospital care rehabilitation facilities, if indicated.

In addition, we offer consultative care for elderly persons hospitalized at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Westwood and Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital at UCLA.