THE VALUE LEDGER / EMERGENCY CARE / CHECKED OCT 31, 2026

When it’s an emergency,
where does help come from?

Selected emergency services, ERs, trauma centers and stroke centers near El Segundo. This incomplete inventory shows distance, beds, public dollars and historical January 2026 ambulance offload percentiles, not live wait times.

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If something goes wrong, how fast does help come, and where does it take you?

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A county 9-1-1 receiving hospital inside El Segundo. No.
- None of the receiving hospitals in the county directory that we checked has an El Segundo address. The directory itself doesn’t say so; this is our reading. estimate LA County EMS Agency ↗“SUBJECT: 9-1-1 RECEIVING HOSPITAL DIRECTORY REFERENCE NO. 501”
A Level I trauma center within 10 miles of City Hall. Yes. Harbor-UCLA Medical Center is 9.4 mi away estimate
- Harbor-UCLA is a Level I trauma center. fact LA County Public Works ↗“Harbor-UCLA Medical Center is one of five Level 1 Trauma Centers within Los Angeles County.”
A comprehensive stroke center within 10 miles of City Hall. Yes. Providence Little Company of Mary, Torrance is 6.7 mi away estimate
- Providence Little Company of Mary Torrance is on the county’s comprehensive stroke list. fact LA County EMS Agency ↗“Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center, Torrance”
Torrance Memorial met the county’s 30-minute, 90th-percentile offload standard in January 2026. No.
- County standard: 30 minutes, 90% of the time. fact LA County EMS Agency ↗“The APOT Standard in Los Angeles County is within 30 minutes, 90% of the time.”
- Torrance Memorial’s 90th-percentile ambulance offload time was 0:42:38 in January 2026. fact California EMS Authority ↗“Torrance Memorial Medical Center 817 0:42:38”
A response time report newer than 2022. No.
- The newest report found covers 2022. fact El Segundo Fire Department ↗“Average Response Time for First El Segundo Unit On Scene 05:27”

The map

14 places with a sourced point, out to 15 miles

The diamond is City Hall. Rings are straight-line miles, not drive times. No streets or coastline are drawn. Points come from LA Metro’s GTFS feed, the county Services Locator or Census-geocoded street addresses (marked estimate on each card).

1El Segundo Fire Department 0.1 mi
2Centinela Hospital Medical Center 4.3 mi
3Cedars-Sinai Marina del Rey Hospital 4.5 mi
4Providence Little Company of Mary, Torrance 6.7 mi
5Memorial Hospital of Gardena 7.2 mi
6Southern California Hospital at Culver City 7.2 mi
7Kaiser Permanente West Los Angeles 8.4 mi
8Torrance Memorial Medical Center 8.5 mi
9Harbor-UCLA Medical Center 9.4 mi
10Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital 9.8 mi
11Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center 10.2 mi
12Cedars-Sinai Medical Center 11.0 mi
13Kaiser Permanente South Bay Medical Center 11.4 mi
14Providence Little Company of Mary, San Pedro 14.1 mi

Not on this map: El Segundo Police Department, Measure B trauma and EMS tax, Dignity Health St. Mary Medical Center, MemorialCare Long Beach Medical Center. The Long Beach hospital addresses didn’t match in the Census geocoder, so they have no distance here. The rest are networks, funds or programs rather than single places.

The gap

From the editorial priorities on the full ledger

Historical ambulance offload delays need current follow-up

The six nearby hospitals with January 2026 measurements shown here exceeded the county’s 30-minute standard at the 90th percentile. The state report lists hospitals exceeding their local standard and excludes those with fewer than 60 qualifying records. It is not a full hospital census or a measure of current ER waits.
- About 70,000 people on a weekday. listing City of El Segundo Economic Development ↗“El Segundo's daytime population peaks at approximately 70,000 people on a daily basis”
- Harbor-UCLA’s 90th-percentile ambulance offload time was 1:09:47 in January 2026. fact California EMS Authority ↗“Harbor UCLA Medical Center 1030 1:09:47 0:30:00 0:39:47 74.2%”
- The state report excludes hospitals with fewer than 60 qualifying records. fact California EMS Authority ↗“Hospitals with less than 60 qualifying records were excluded from this assessment”
What would help our ideas
- Ask the Fire Department to publish response times every year, with a stated goal (the newest report found is from 2022).
- Track the Torrance Memorial ER expansion due spring 2027, which says it will double treatment spaces.
- Map urgent care hours inside the city as a next layer, so residents know where to go for things that aren’t 9-1-1.
Not live Pledges will be a signal, never a payment.

Every asset

Inside El Segundo first, then nearest first