The Oceanside Wellness Group as it appeared in The Other Side of This Life
The Oceanside Wellness Group was a private practice located in Los Angeles, California. It was founded by Dr. Naomi Bennett and Dr. Sam Bennett. Its rival practice was the Pacific Wellcare Center, which is located on the fourth floor of the same building as the Oceanside Wellness Center, which opened in Know When to Fold.
Oceanside Wellness also has a lab on another floor which they use to conduct medical tests, as well a smaller lab inside in the center, where Naomi will fertilize eggs for patients. Combined with (at least three) exam rooms and (at least two) birthing suites, the center and its staff are able to follow families from conception to birth and through life.
The practice is also equipped for basic medical emergencies, with a crash cart (including defibrillator), medications (including narcotics) and ambulances being 20 minutes away in traffic in the event of an emergency.
At Oceanside, it is about practicing small-town medicine and it is about connecting, not the surgeries. They are lucky to receive one patient a day each.
Oceanside took a heavy blow during a lawsuit from one of their patients in which a thorough investigation was about to be instigated. The result in Oceanside dissolving and being remade into Seaside Health and Wellness.
Main Staff
The Oceanside Wellness Group building as it currently appears in Private Practice
- Dr. Addison Forbes Montgomery (Director; OB/GYN, Perinatologist, Neonatal surgeon and Medical Geneticist)
- Dr. Sam Bennett (Founding partner; Internist, and Cardiothoracic Surgeon)
- Dr. Violet Turner (Psychiatrist)
- Dr. Cooper Freedman (Pediatrician)
- Dell Parker (Receptionist, Nurse, and Trainee Midwife)
- Dr. Charlotte King (Sexology)
Former Staff
- Dr. Meg Porter (In conjunction with the Venice Family Clinic)
- Dr. Naomi Bennett (Founding partner; Reproductive Endocrinologist and Infertility Specialist)
- Dr. Pete Wilder (Alternative Medicine Specialist)
Notes and Trivia
- In Season 1, Naomi owned 55% of the practice. Then, when Naomi went to Pacific Wellcare, the other doctors put $50,000 into the practice and bought out Naomi.