Kaiser Permanente West LA
I wanted to give my impression of Kaiser Permanente West Los Angeles orthopedics. I found it extremely disorganized and they were very unhelpful. In July 2025, I found out that I had a late stage avascular necrosis. They refused to schedule an operation, which I understood. However six months later, they still continued to want me to do physical therapy, despite x-ray showing collapse.
I went to Cedar Sinai, and they advised physical therapy would not help at this point and schedule the surgery.
Unfortunately, I’ve talked to two other people now who had similar experiences at Kaiser Permanente. One of them were told by a nurse that the surgeons were purposely delaying surgeries because they were understaffed.
It’s a real shame, and I hope that this is not indicative of the rest of Kaiser Permanente care in Los Angeles. That being said I have moved to Cedar Sinai will not look back.
I do think that Kaiser can be a good center and I don’t want to scare people, but I wanted to make people aware that this was happening.