The partnership will include efforts to provide health care resources and awareness to the greater Los Angeles community.
The Los Angeles Chargers and UCLA Health have entered into a multi-year partnership that recruits UCLA Health as the Official Medical Assistant and Travel Training Camp Assistant.
As the Official Medical Partner for Defenders, UCLA Health will provide primary orthopedic and sports medicine care to the team. The partnership extends the naming rights for the Recharge Room, known as the “Recharge Room,” located within the team’s new state-of-the-art training facility, Bolt , El Segundo, CA.
“UCLA Health is pleased to serve as the medical partner for the Los Angeles Chargers,” said Johnese Spisso, president of UCLA Health and CEO of UCLA Hospital System. “Our comprehensive team of orthopedic and sports medicine specialists provide primary care to the athletes and patients in our community who come to UCLA Health for this expertise.”
“UCLA Health has been recognized for its excellence in healthcare and patient care for decades,” said AG Spanos, Chargers President of Business Operations. “Being able to bring the level of world-class expertise and consistency that has come to define UCLA Health to our players, day in and day out, through the best possible collaboration. Through their presence at The Bolt , at training camp and on game day, we couldn’t be more excited to welcome UCLA Health to the Chargers family.”
During the partnership, the Chargers and UCLA Health will collaborate on efforts to provide health care resources and awareness to the greater Los Angeles community. The Chargers will work with UCLA Health to highlight healthcare workers as part of their Healthcare Heroes Program throughout the season through interactive experiences, dedicated displays and digital content pieces on the video board. .
“We are excited about the opportunity to partner with the Los Angeles Chargers to develop sports medicine. Our work with USA Basketball, Dodgers, Lakers, Sparks and UCLA Athletics makes our team uniquely suited to support the Chargers as they’re opening up this great facility,” said Nicholas Bernthal, MD, Chairman and Chief Medical Director of the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at UCLA Health.
A longtime highlight of the Chargers’ Community Relations efforts and something the players love so much, UCLA Health will host future hospital visits from some of the team’s biggest stars. These visits aim to brighten patients’ days and create lasting memories for those going through life’s most difficult times.
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About The Los Angeles Chargers
Now in their 65th season in Southern California, the Defenders continue to stretch the imagination and put on the most exciting show in football. But don’t let the cool West Coast conditions and powder blue uniforms — considered the NFL’s best — fool you. Behind the spectacular games, memorable highlights, beloved players and spectacular performances lies an unwavering process of success; one based on hard work, perseverance and good old fashioned hard work. Founded in Los Angeles in 1960 as a charter member of the American Football League, the team played in San Diego from 1961 to 2016 and advanced to five of six AFL Championship games, winning the title in 1963 .Becoming a member of the National Football League when the two leagues merged in 1970, the Chargers went on to claim 10 more titles and appeared in Super Bowl XXIX. Owned by the Spanos family since 1984, the Defenders returned to Los Angeles in 2017, opening their multi-billion dollar SoFi home in 2020, moving to their new quarter billion training facility in the heart of El Segundo of Los Angeles. South Bay in 2024 and continue to redefine what an NFL franchise looks like in the 21st century. Learn more at www.chargers.com and follow us on Instagram, Twitter and YouTube.
UCLA Health is one of the most advanced health care systems in the world, dedicated to providing high-quality patient care, supporting pioneering research and training the next generation of health care professionals. UCLA Health offers an extensive network of primary and specialty care services at five world-class medical centers – Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital, the Stewart and Lynda Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital UCLA , UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center and UCLA West Valley. Medical Center – and more 280 clinics throughout Southern California and the Central Coast. For 35 consecutive years, UCLA Health hospitals have earned a spot in the US News & World Report a national honor roll, a selection reserved for the few who provide the highest quality care in many medical specialties. UCLA Health also includes the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. UCLA Health is where discovery leads to world-class care. Visit uclahealth.org.
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