Tools and Toolkits

L.A. Cares offers specific tools and resources for providing evidence-based behavioral health services to our members. Learn more about our partners in this effort and how to ensure continuity of care for your L.A. Care patients.

Go to Behavioral Health

Looking for resources to help identify and connect to services for developmental delays in your youngest patients? Help Me Grow LA partners with health care and other providers to guide families and enhance their child's development and health. Finding and treating developmental delays early can make a big impact on children and their families.

Go to Early Screening Resources

View the Clinical Practice and Preventive Health Guidelines adopted by L.A. Care. You can also download preventive health guideline brochures to display in patient areas.

Go to Practice Guidelines

Find local health and community resources like housing assistance, food, help with bills and more.

Go to L.A. Care Community Link

L.A. Care offers resources and tools to help you provide culturally and linguistically appropriate care to and promote health equity while staying compliant with the regulatory requirements.

Go to C&L Resources

Flu season is here and given the current COVID pandemic, it is more important than ever to offer the flu vaccine to your patients.

Go to Flu & COVID-19 Resources

L.A. Care offers free resources to help you educate patients on health topics. These include materials (to order and to print) and classes at our Community Resource Centers that you can refer patients to attend. 

Go to HECLS Tools

We have HEDIS^® (Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set) reference guides for selected priority measures. These guides are designed to help your practice provide the best quality care, in alignment with the HEDIS^® standards as well as with evidence-based clinical practice guidelines.

Go to HEDIS^® Guides

Have you had your Initial Health Appointment (IHA) with your newly assigned L.A. Care Medi-Cal patients? Learn about the IHA requirements for primary care providers.

View IHA Tips

We've gathered several toolkits for you on topics such as serving diverse populations, appropriate use of antibiotics and behavioral health. There's also a Facility Site Review toolkit to help you meet the service requirements of state and federal regulatory agencies.

Go to Toolkits

Find resources and information that will help you to provide the highest quality care to your patients and L.A. Care members.

Go to Quality Improvement Resources

The United States Preventive Services Task Force recommends that providers ask all individuals ages 18 years and older about tobacco use. Learn more about recommendations and requirements, as well as the tools, resources and trainings that are available to assist your practice and patients. 

Go to Tobacco Cessation