InSight Health to provide MRI services to four L.A. medical centers

TriMed Staff | | Health Imaging | Practice Management
InSight Health Services has entered into a long-term agreement with the county of Los Angeles to provide MRI services at four county-owned academic medical centers.

The medical centers are: Harbor-UCLA, Martin Luther King, Jr./Drew Medical Center, Olive View-UCLA Medical Center and Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center, according to the Lake Forest, Calif.-based company.

Kip Hallman, InSight’s president and CEO said the company will be installing MRI equipment at all four hospitals, including GE's 3.0 Tesla MR 750 system at Harbor UCLA.

TriMed Staff

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