Silicon Beach Medical Center — Local services in Los Angeles

I mean, talk about a top notch urgent care. First, they're open late. I sliced the ball of my foot open pretty badly one evening while skateboarding with no shoes on down on the boardwalk, and by the time I was looking for an urgent care it was 8:30pm. Everywhere else was closed so my buddy dropped me off here. Thank goodness everywhere else was closed because I couldn't have gotten better care than I got here. Let me break it down:

All the nurses were great. My cut was pretty bad and they all did a great job of keeping my spirits up. Alex, Emily, Carla, Kat, and Sonia we're all tip top. A big thanks to all of them. But the best part of my visit was of course Dr. Jay. I needed 20 stitches on the ball of my foot. I almost tore my big toe off. So this wasn't a job for some geek off the street. The Dr. had to be handy with his stitches, to earn his keep, you know what I mean? Well Dr. Jay did what every dr. who has since looked at this said was the best stitch job they had ever seen. And it had to be. The slice was in such an awkward place that it needed an expert to put it back together. And put it back together he did. I was in there for a couple hours, keeping all of them at work much later than they had expected to be there, but nobody complained. In fact we all had a pretty good time. I asked one of the nurses to video tape the stitching for me on my phone for posterity sake, and she did. Dr. Jay did an amazing job. If you think you need stitches and you're looking for an urgent care, call them up and see if Dr. Jay is in. He's the best you can find for stitches. I'm 3 weeks out from my stitches. I just got them out the other day. Being the slice was in such a bad place, and that I had to continue to work 8 hour shifts on my feet starting 4 days after the accident, it's amazing that it healed the way it did. I had to have a dr. put a little glue in the little spot that was still open when I got the stitches out, but considering where the cut was and that I didn't stay off my foot following the procedure, it turned out really well. I'm so gratefull for Dr. Jay and all the ladies who helped me when I was there. Oh, when I came back the following day to have the bandage changed there was another nurse/dr. there, named Debbie. Wow. Although she missed the main event the night before, she jumped right in and helped out with her banter and good will towards man. I fell in love with her immediately and if lived in LA I'd have asked her out right then and there. She's probably married with kids, but hey, you gotta play to win.

To sum up: 5 star experience here. Thank you again to everyone who helped fix me up after a horrible accident that had me thinking I might lose some toes. You all...

I broke my right wrist 1/21/25. I was delightfully assisted first by Maria the on Staff RN and Maria was very pleasant polite and she has a very good bedside manner, next I was seen by a medical staff a really beautiful young lady and her name is Anna she was amazing she gave me a shot of toradol and some other something else I forget what the second shot was. I didn't even feel the needle go in! so, I told her I'd make a review and next I was@ seen by Rick a super fabulous friendly he could be my best friend he's so nice he loves cats like I love cats we talked about his one cat that just passed away at 18 and he's just really nice he reminded me of my best friend Tom Farina when I lived in Pismo Beach and he was so good I said I could marry you you're so nice and he smiled very pleasantly and said I'm already married but you know he knew I was just being friendly they was really nice really nice and then the physician's assistant Jay was also very pleasant and I let him know that my brother Anthony is also a physician's assistant at Corcoran prison and he just smiled and kind of made some kind of gesture I told my brother today and he just left he said right on so I really enjoyed I really enjoyed it and then my Uber driver was I was picked up by a beautiful brand new range Rover and I told the lady boy I'll break my wrist any day to get it right in one of these and she's just left so with a broken wrist I went home very happy no good drugs though just 800 mg of ibuprofen but that's okay I didn't even go pick it up cuz I have ibuprofen at the house I mean I don't need any Vicodin or any of that junk so I totally recommend this place a little bit about me I'm a retired paralegal so I'm a professional and I really enjoyed it the whole thing was really nice it's a really nice clean office it's really accessible to get to from the drop off and my Uber drivers pick me up within 2 minutes and I live in Venice Beach so it was like totally close. Good luck and I totally recommend the place and I hope you feel better or your family member...

BAIT & SWITCH: DO NOT USE THIS FACILITY FOR MEDICAL CLEARANCE. We called multiple medical facilities to get the price snd total cost for the doctor visit and blood work for medical clearance. I read the different blood work that the doctors offices requested and the staff at Silicon Beach Medical Center said it would be roughly $300 in blood work plus the doctors visit or around $300. That was similar in pricing to the other offices so we decided to stop in. We ended up having to pay $350 the day of the visit and they told us again in person that we should receive a bill for around $300. The doctor did not clear us so we went to another doctor. This was back in April.

The new doctor cleared us on the spot and said the previous doctors reason for not clearing us meant he probably did not do medical clearance very often as it was a common occurrence. The total charge for the same blood work and doctors visit was $375. This was an office in Beverly Hills. $225 cheaper than Silicon Beach Medical Center which did not ever clear us.

We just received a bill for almost $900. I called the office and told them that this bill was wrong as they told us two times the bill would be $300 and they denied all responsibility for their office, staff and what they told us to come in. Seems like they are running a bait and switch with the laboratory. I originally called a lot of labs when I was doing research and the labs were all around $300 or so when I called them so I know this is bait and switch.

I just do not want anyone else to get scammed like they did to us. I am a business owner and I try to make things right. I am appalled they had no compassion for the actions they took and that they took no responsibility whatsoever. We are taking legal action, reporting them to the BBB and writing this review across all sites so that others do not...