Mr. Munoz oversees a long-term growth and market positioning strategy to advance UCLA Health’s priorities such as enhancing access to a comprehensive continuum of care and driving tertiary and quaternary business through selected collaborations and targeted expansions. Among the acquisitions and partnerships that have launched since Mr. Munoz joined UCLA Health in 2013: California Rehabilitation Institute, a 138-bed acute rehabilitation hospital and joint venture now ranked as California’s top rehabilitation hospital; Vivity HMO, a partnership of various health systems and an insurer designed to offer an affordable, high-quality HMO plan in Los Angeles and Orange counties; acquisition of a closed community hospital campus now being converted to a state-of-the-art neuropsychiatric hospital that will expand psychiatric bed capacity by 60%; a strategic alliance with the Southern California Orthopedic Institute to bring care closer to where patients live and work; a joint venture with Children’s Hospital Orange County to enhance access to world-class pediatric congenital cardiac care; more than 100 additional primary and specialty care clinics across Southern California.
