A young city, with 20,276 people past 65
Across Pomona's three ZIP codes, 20,276 people are 65 or older, in a population of 152,679. At 13.3 percent, that share is below the 15.2 percent for Los Angeles County as a whole. In 91766, on the south side, the count is 9,135. It is 6,617 in 91767 to the north and 4,524 in 91768 to the west. Each ZIP code is close to the city's share: 13.2 percent in 91766 and 91768, 13.5 percent in 91767. The median age is 35.4 in 91766, 37.4 in 91767 and 33.9 in 91768. Spanish is spoken at home by 57.6 percent of people 5 and older in 91766, 48.4 percent in 91767 and 55.8 percent in 91768. Those who speak only English at home make up 30.8, 42.5 and 36.7 percent, in the same order. Lara speaks Spanish and can run the entire review in it. If a parent is more comfortable in Spanish and the son or daughter who keeps track of the paperwork prefers English, she uses both in one conversation, so each of them hears every point in their own language. Source for this section: the 2020 to 2024 American Community Survey. Each 65 and older count is a sum of the survey's age groups, not a percentage applied to the population.
Pomona's two hospitals are both in 91767
Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center, at 1798 N Garey Ave, is the city's general hospital. It is licensed for 427 beds and has an emergency department. Casa Colina Hospital, at 255 E Bonita Ave, is licensed for 99 beds and is a rehabilitation hospital, not a general one. West of the city, Kaiser Foundation Hospital Baldwin Park, at 1011 Baldwin Park Blvd, is licensed for 271 beds. It is a Kaiser hospital, and only Kaiser plans have it in their networks. The bed counts are from the state's hospital licensing records for Los Angeles County, as of September 2026. That list stops at the county line, so hospitals on the San Bernardino County side are not on this page. Pomona Valley and Casa Colina are both independent hospitals. With Medicare Advantage, your plan's medical group decides whether you are admitted to Pomona Valley or sent west along the 10 or across the county line. A single insurer may sell plans tied to different medical groups. Group contracts with hospitals also get renegotiated, and a hospital can drop out of a network when they do. Before you enroll, Lara checks Pomona Valley, Casa Colina, your doctors and your pharmacy against every plan she shows you. When the plans announce their changes each fall, she checks again.
Extra Help counts your income, not the household's
Median household income is $81,991 in 91766, $79,245 in 91767 and $76,041 in 91768. Those figures cover everyone under one roof, but Extra Help and Medi-Cal do not. If you are on Medicare and live with grown children who work, their pay is left out. Only your own income and assets count, or yours and your spouse's. Extra Help brings down Part D drug costs, and it has its own income and resource limits. With Medi-Cal as well as Medicare, you may qualify for a Dual Eligible Special Needs Plan. Lara asks about income and savings before she shows you any plan, because either kind of help can change which plans are worth comparing.
Medicare Advantage across Los Angeles County in 2027
About 57 percent of Los Angeles County's 1.7 million Medicare beneficiaries are enrolled in Medicare Advantage or another Medicare health plan (CMS, May 2026). The county has 70 Medicare Advantage plans open to general enrollment in 2027, plus 54 Special Needs Plans, and 60 of the 70 charge a $0 monthly plan premium (CMS 2027 Landscape file). What varies far more is the out of pocket maximum, the most you pay in a year for covered care in network: our analysis of the same file puts the average at $2,232 and the median at $1,500, with a range from $199 to $9,850.
Lara is a licensed insurance agent. Insurance companies pay her when you enroll, so her help costs you nothing and your premium is the same with or without her.
How Lara is paidIndependent Medicare help in Pomona
Goulson Insurance Services Inc. is an independent insurance agency, and our agents work as licensed brokers for Pomona families. No single insurance company employs us or decides what we recommend, so the comparison starts with your doctors, your prescriptions and your budget. We put Medicare Advantage, Medicare Supplement and Part D plans from several carriers side by side, and you enroll only if one fits. The agency holds CA license 6020069, Lara Goulson holds CA license 0E69969, and we work in English, Spanish and Hebrew.
What Lara does besides comparing plans
Just over half of Pomona households, 54.1 percent, own their home, compared with 45.9 percent for the county. If a paid off house makes up most of what your family owns, plan ahead for long term care, starting with who would cover the cost of care and how Medi-Cal looks at a home you own. Lara sells long term care, life insurance and final expense coverage. She covers those in a separate conversation, never inside your Medicare review. Once you are on a plan, you can still call her about a denied claim, a billing error or a doctor's office you need to reach. She will get on the phone with you.
To meet Lara at home in Pomona, in Spanish or English, call or text (818) 472-5484.
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