LOS ANGELES, CA – The City of West Hollywood and the Los Angeles LGBT Center’s WeHoLife program will celebrate the launch of the new Community Health Hub, a one-year pilot built around a public health vending machine in West Hollywood Park, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony later this month, the city announced.
The ceremony is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 19, at the park’s Robertson Lawn, 647 N. San Vicente Boulevard, according to a city news release.
The Hub is located in West Hollywood Park near the 24-hour restrooms and the small dog park. It offers free supplies around the clock, every day of the week.
Supplies available at the Hub
The machine stocks health, safety, wellness and harm-reduction supplies. According to the city’s Community Health Hub page, these include naloxone and fentanyl test kits.
The Hub also carries at-home HIV and syphilis test kits and safer sex supplies. Wound care and hygiene kits, sharps containers and safer injection and smoking kits are part of the selection as well.
Nightlife safety supplies round out the list. The city’s page says access is private, with no ID and no staff interaction required.
How the pilot is run
The city’s Human Services Division funds the pilot, and WeHoLife, a program of the Los Angeles LGBT Center, operates it. The Hub is listed under the city’s Substance Use Recovery & Harm Reduction program page.
According to initial reports, the City Council authorized the one-year pilot in March 2026, using about $112,900 in opioid settlement funds earmarked for overdose prevention.
Initial reports also say the city describes the Hub as a way to promote health and wellness, prevent accidental overdose and illness, and connect people to services and care. It is intended to serve residents, workers, visitors and nightlife patrons, as well as people experiencing homelessness or housing instability.
What the ceremony will include
City leaders and community partners will take part in the ribbon-cutting, the city said. The program will include a demonstration of how the Hub works.
Attendees will also have a chance to meet program staff, and light refreshments will be served. The city asks those planning to attend to RSVP at go.weho.org/CHHlaunch.
Additional information about the Hub is available at go.weho.org/CHHinfo, according to the city’s resource page.
Overdose deaths in Los Angeles County
Naloxone and fentanyl test kits are among the supplies the Hub offers. County figures show the scale of overdose deaths across the region.
The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health reported in a June 2025 announcement that “drug-related overdose and poisoning deaths dropped from 3,137 deaths in 2023 to 2,438 deaths in 2024.” That is a 22% decline and the lowest count since 2019, according to the department.
The department also reported that fentanyl-related deaths fell 37% and methamphetamine-related deaths fell 20% between 2023 and 2024. Fentanyl’s share of accidental overdose deaths declined from 64% in 2023 to 52% in 2024.
Those figures cover Los Angeles County as a whole. They do not break out West Hollywood.
Evaluation of the pilot
Initial reports say city staff will track the number of items dispensed, linkages to services and sharps disposal counts. They also say staff will present a six-month interim evaluation and a full one-year evaluation to the City Council.
The pilot is designed to run for one year from its launch.
Ribbon-cutting is set for Oct. 19
The Community Health Hub pilot will be marked publicly at 4:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 19, at West Hollywood Park’s Robertson Lawn. The city has asked attendees to RSVP in advance.
