On Jan. 5, 2026, Habitat Health announced the opening of their new center in Compton. The center is designed to provide accessible health and social care for elders in South Los Angeles.
Launched in collaboration with Kaiser Permanente, Habitat Health operates as a Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) service, a Medicare and Medicaid program aimed at providing nursing home services for people over the age of 55 that wish to remain in their home with more support.
Habitat Health’s program offers “medical care, social services, day center activities, transportation, physical therapy, prescription management and nutrition counseling” as well as arrangement of “labs and diagnostics, home care, dental services and specialty care.”
According to the National Library of Medicine, The PACE model has demonstrated its superiority to other traditional health care systems as a “gold standard,” providing increased services available for individuals while lower hospital stay, leading to improved quality of life for the elderly adults as well as reduced burden for the caregivers at a reduced health care cost.
Following their initial launch in Sacramento, this is Habitat Health’s second PACE center and their first in the South Los Angeles area. According to the University of California, Los Angeles Center For Health Policy Research, the risk of preventable hospitalization due to conditions such as diabetes, asthma or hypertension is significantly higher in low income areas such as South Los Angeles, showing nearly twice the rate of preventable hospitalizations for adults compared to West Los Angeles. This results from their inaccessibility for appropriate medical service and outpatient care. Habitat Health seeks to lessen the medical disadvantage that elders in South Los Angeles face by providing them with the medical service.
According to Habitat Health, Matthew Bennet, CEO of Habitat Health, said opening the center in Compton “helps close a real gap in access to care for older adults across South Los Angeles” and emphasized that the organization’s goal is “to make care easier to reach, more personal and truly centered on helping older adults stay independent and engaged in the communities they call home.”
