Sending Flowers to a Hospital in Los Angeles
Most Los Angeles hospitals accept flowers for patients in regular rooms. Intensive care is the exception. Of the 30 hospitals in our delivery area that publish a rule about flowers, 29 restrict them in the ICU: 28 don’t allow fresh flowers there, and UCLA Santa Monica allows them for some ICU patients if the nurse agrees. Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and City of Hope go further and keep fresh flowers out of every patient area, and Barlow Respiratory Hospital doesn’t allow flowers or plants anywhere in the building.
On October 21, 2026, we read the websites of 96 hospitals with inpatient beds within our 30-mile delivery area, from the state of California’s list of licensed hospitals. This page lists what each one says about flowers and balloons, with a link to the source, and names the hospitals that publish no rule at all. Hospitals change these rules without notice, so check with the hospital before you order. Sending flowers to a funeral instead? See our funeral and cemetery guide.
Before you order
- Call the patient’s unit and ask whether flowers are allowed there. The unit’s answer is the one that counts, so please call it yourself before you order.
- Don’t send fresh flowers to a patient in intensive care. Almost every hospital that publishes a rule keeps them out of the ICU, so expect the same where nothing is published. Send the flowers to a family member at home, or wait until the patient moves to a regular room.
- In the delivery instructions in your bag, write the patient’s full name as registered at admission, the room or unit if you know it, and a phone number for the patient or a family member. For a new mother, add her maiden and married names.
- Pick a compact arrangement. Large pieces are hard to fit in a room and hard to take home at discharge, as the Providence hospitals point out in their patient guides.
- Adding balloons? Choose the red foil Hearts. Our white Classic balloons are latex, and many hospitals don’t allow latex. See Helium Balloons.
- Some hospitals ask for no strongly scented flowers, such as stargazer lilies. If you’re unsure, write to us in the chat and our florist will suggest a bouquet with a light scent.
If the hospital doesn’t accept the flowers
If the hospital doesn’t let our driver in or won’t take the flowers, we call you and, where we can, the patient. Someone can come down to the lobby for the bouquet, or we leave it where the hospital receives deliveries. Once the bouquet is handed to the front desk or left at that place, the order counts as delivered. At some hospitals, such as Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, the flowers then stay at the front desk for the family and never reach the room.
If neither works, we bring the bouquet back to our shop at 6201 Hollywood Blvd and keep it until the end of pickup hours the next day. You can pick it up yourself, or book one redelivery to another address, later the same day or the next day. A redelivery costs the same as your first delivery. If the new address is farther away, you pay the higher fee for that address, and if it’s within our free delivery area, redelivery is free. We’ll confirm the amount with you first. If the bouquet isn’t picked up or redelivered by the end of pickup hours the next day, the order is complete.
When a hospital refuses the flowers, the order isn’t eligible for a refund. If we can’t deliver for a reason on our side, we refund the order or deliver again at no cost. We can’t promise that a hospital will accept a delivery, whether or not it appears on this page. Our Delivery & Pickup Policy has the full terms.
Flowers left at a front desk in the evening or on a weekend may wait there until staff take them up. Some hospitals carry mail and deliveries to rooms on weekdays only, so a weekday delivery reaches the room faster.
What Los Angeles hospitals publish about flowers and balloons
Each entry sums up what the hospital publishes, with a link to the page it comes from. Our own notes are marked as ours. Checked October 21, 2026.
Hollywood, Downtown and East LA
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles doesn’t allow flowers or plants in any patient care area. The front desk keeps flower deliveries for the family to take home. Foil balloons are welcome; latex balloons are not. Our note: The flowers won’t reach the child’s room. Foil balloons, or flowers sent to the family’s home, are the better choice.
CHA Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center
CHA Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center allows flowers in patient areas, except critical care and units that treat patients with weakened immune systems. Our note: The visitor policy is dated June 2023.
Barlow Respiratory Hospital
Barlow Respiratory Hospital doesn’t allow plants or flowers anywhere in the hospital. It makes exceptions only in special cases, such as end-of-life visits. Our note: The same page still carries COVID-era visiting rules.
PIH Health Good Samaritan Hospital
PIH Health Good Samaritan Hospital doesn’t allow plants, flowers, balloons or food in Critical Care at any time.
USC Norris Cancer Hospital
USC Norris Cancer Hospital doesn’t allow fresh flowers in any of its inpatient units. Artificial arrangements are fine if they have no potting soil. No latex balloons in patient rooms.
Keck Hospital of USC
Keck Hospital of USC doesn’t allow fresh flowers in intensive care or protective isolation rooms. Other patients can have flowers if the room has space. Living plants are allowed only on the ground floors. No latex balloons in any patient room; foil balloons are allowed in some.
East Los Angeles Doctors Hospital
East Los Angeles Doctors Hospital allows no live plants, flowers or latex balloons in its pediatric unit; foil balloons are fine there. It publishes nothing about flowers on other units.
Westside: Beverly Hills, Westwood, Culver City and Santa Monica
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center doesn’t allow flowers, plants or balloons on floors 4 to 8 of the Saperstein Critical Care Tower, where the intensive care units are. Our note: The rule appears on the hospital’s gift shop site; its main visitor policy doesn’t mention flowers.
Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center
Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center doesn’t allow fresh flowers or plants in its intensive care units or for transplant patients (8 North, 6 East and transplant rooms on 8 East and 8 West). Some ICUs also ban latex balloons, while artificial flowers and foil balloons are welcome in 8ICU and 8 North. The gift shop warns that deliveries to the Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital may be restricted. UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital, in the same building, doesn’t allow latex balloons anywhere, and its NICU takes no balloons or live plants.
Providence Saint John’s Health Center
Providence Saint John’s Health Center doesn’t allow flowers or plant arrangements in its Intensive Care, Coronary Care or Sub-Acute units. It also notes that large arrangements are hard to take home at discharge.
UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center
UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center allows fresh flowers and plants in the adult ICU only for patients whose immune system works normally, so ask the nurse first. None in the PTU/PACU and TRU units, and none for patients with very low white blood cell counts on the oncology and surgical units. Artificial flowers and non-latex balloons are welcome.
Glendale, Burbank and Pasadena
Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center
Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center doesn’t allow flowers or plant arrangements in its Intensive Care, Coronary Care or Sub-Acute units. It also notes that large arrangements are hard to take home at discharge.
Glendale Memorial Hospital and Health Center
Glendale Memorial Hospital and Health Center doesn’t allow flowers in its Critical Care Center (ICU) or CCU. Its gift shop delivers flowers to other rooms. Our note: This rule was on the hospital’s gift shop page until December 2025. The page has since been removed, and we expect the rule still applies.
Adventist Health Glendale
Adventist Health Glendale doesn’t allow flowers or balloons in Critical Care, the Stepdown Unit or Labor and Delivery. Our note: For a new baby, the family’s home is the safer address.
USC Verdugo Hills Hospital
USC Verdugo Hills Hospital doesn’t allow latex balloons in patient care areas and recommends foil. It publishes nothing about flowers.
Huntington Hospital
Huntington Hospital’s whole campus is latex-safe, so no latex balloons. The hospital publishes no limits on flowers, and its volunteer gift shop sells fresh flowers to send to patients.
San Fernando Valley and Santa Clarita
Encino Hospital Medical Center
Encino Hospital Medical Center staff take flowers to the patient’s room as soon as they arrive. Patients in the ICU or Step Down unit get them after moving to a regular floor.
Valley Presbyterian Hospital
Valley Presbyterian Hospital doesn’t allow latex balloons in Maternity and Women’s Services. It publishes no limits on flowers, and its gift shop sells fresh flowers and delivers them to rooms.
Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center
At Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center, florist deliveries go to the security guard, and volunteers or staff take them up to the room. No flowers in intensive care or cardiac care. The hospital asks you to avoid strongly scented flowers such as stargazer lilies and gardenias.
Providence Holy Cross Medical Center
Providence Holy Cross Medical Center doesn’t allow flowers or plant arrangements in its Intensive Care, Coronary Care or Sub-Acute units. It also notes that large arrangements are hard to take home at discharge.
San Gabriel Valley
Alhambra Hospital Medical Center
Alhambra Hospital Medical Center delivers flowers to the patient’s room itself. Patients in the ICU can’t have flowers.
Greater El Monte Community Hospital
Greater El Monte Community Hospital doesn’t allow flowers or balloons in the ICU.
Monrovia Memorial Hospital
Monrovia Memorial Hospital welcomes flowers, except in the ICU.
City of Hope
City of Hope in Duarte doesn’t allow live flowers in patient units. Silk or plastic arrangements without moss are allowed in most rooms outside the ICU; in the ICU, no floral arrangements of any kind. No latex balloons anywhere, and no foil balloons in the ICU.
South LA, Downey, Norwalk and Whittier
PIH Health Downey Hospital
PIH Health Downey Hospital doesn’t allow plants, flowers, balloons or food in Critical Care at any time.
PIH Health Whittier Hospital
PIH Health Whittier Hospital doesn’t allow plants, flowers, balloons or food in Critical Care at any time.
South Bay and Long Beach
Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center Torrance
Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center Torrance doesn’t allow flowers or plants in ICU rooms 200 to 228. Its gift shop delivers flowers to other rooms.
UCI Health Lakewood
UCI Health’s gift and flower shop, which serves UCI Health Lakewood, can’t deliver flowers to any intensive care unit, including the NICU. The Lakewood visitor page itself says nothing about flowers.
Torrance Memorial Medical Center
Torrance Memorial Medical Center welcomes flowers and foil balloons in most inpatient rooms. They’re not allowed in the ICUs, the burn unit, pre-op, recovery (PACU) or surgical and procedural areas.
MemorialCare Long Beach Medical Center
MemorialCare Long Beach Medical Center doesn’t allow flowers in the ICU or the Cardiac Care Unit, according to its 2021 patient guide. It allows no latex balloons anywhere in the hospital.
Miller Children’s & Women’s Hospital Long Beach
Miller Children’s & Women’s Hospital Long Beach doesn’t allow latex balloons anywhere, including the BirthCare Center. It publishes nothing about flowers.
Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center San Pedro
At Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center San Pedro, hospital volunteers take flowers up to patient rooms. No flowers in the ICU.
Orange County
Anaheim Community Hospital
Anaheim Community Hospital discourages gifts and outside items, and staff inspect everything brought in for patients. Visiting is 7 to 8 PM only. Our note: Call the hospital before you send flowers.
Providence St. Jude Medical Center
Providence St. Jude Medical Center doesn’t allow flower deliveries to the ICU or CCU, under hospital rules.
AHMC Anaheim Regional Medical Center
AHMC Anaheim Regional Medical Center doesn’t allow flowers in intensive care. Flowers that arrive after the patient goes home go back to the florist, and patient mail reaches rooms Monday to Friday only. Our note: This comes from the hospital’s 2014 patient guide, which its website still links.
Hospitals that publish no flower rules
None of these hospitals publishes a rule about flowers for patients. Some sell flowers in their own gift shop, which isn’t the same as a rule for outside florists. Kaiser Permanente publishes no flower rules for any of its Los Angeles hospitals, including the Los Angeles Medical Center on Sunset Blvd. Ask the hospital before you order. If it doesn’t accept the bouquet, the steps under “If the hospital doesn’t accept the flowers” apply. Checked October 21, 2026.
Hollywood, Downtown and East LA (7)
- Southern California Hospital at Hollywood
- Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center (Sunset Blvd)
- L.A. Downtown Medical Center
- California Hospital Medical Center
- Adventist Health White Memorial (Los Angeles)
- Los Angeles General Medical Center (formerly LAC+USC)
- Los Angeles Community Hospital (Olympic Blvd)
Westside: Beverly Hills, Westwood, Culver City and Santa Monica (5)
- Kaiser Permanente West Los Angeles Medical Center
- California Rehabilitation Institute (Century City)
- Southern California Hospital at Culver City
- West Los Angeles VA Medical Center
- Cedars-Sinai Marina del Rey Hospital
San Fernando Valley and Santa Clarita (11)
- Sherman Oaks Hospital
- Kaiser Permanente Panorama City Medical Center
- Pacifica Hospital of the Valley (Sun Valley)
- Mission Community Hospital (Panorama City)
- Northridge Hospital Medical Center
- Kaiser Permanente Woodland Hills Medical Center
- Olive View-UCLA Medical Center (Sylmar)
- UCLA West Valley Medical Center (West Hills)
- Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital (Valencia)
- Adventist Health Simi Valley
- Los Robles Rehabilitation Hospital (Westlake Village)
San Gabriel Valley (13)
- Monterey Park Hospital
- Garfield Medical Center (Monterey Park)
- San Gabriel Valley Medical Center
- Adventist Health White Memorial Montebello
- USC Arcadia Hospital
- Kaiser Permanente Baldwin Park Medical Center
- Kindred Hospital Baldwin Park
- Emanate Health Queen of the Valley Hospital (West Covina)
- West Covina Medical Center
- Kindred Hospital San Gabriel Valley (West Covina)
- Emanate Health Inter-Community Hospital (Covina)
- Emanate Health Foothill Presbyterian Hospital (Glendora)
- San Dimas Community Hospital
South LA, Downey, Norwalk and Whittier (13)
- Kindred Hospital Los Angeles (Slauson Ave)
- Community Hospital of Huntington Park
- Centinela Hospital Medical Center (Inglewood)
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital
- St. Francis Medical Center (Lynwood)
- Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center (Downey)
- Kaiser Permanente Downey Medical Center
- Kindred Hospital Paramount
- Coast Plaza Hospital (Norwalk)
- Los Angeles Community Hospital at Bellflower
- Norwalk Community Hospital
- Whittier Hospital Medical Center
- Vista Specialty Hospital (La Mirada)
South Bay and Long Beach (7)
- Memorial Hospital of Gardena
- Kindred Hospital South Bay (Gardena)
- Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (Torrance)
- Kaiser Permanente South Bay Medical Center (Harbor City)
- College Medical Center (Long Beach)
- St. Mary Medical Center (Long Beach)
- VA Long Beach Medical Center
Orange County (5)
- La Palma Intercommunity Hospital
- UCI Health Los Alamitos
- West Anaheim Medical Center
- Kindred Hospital Brea
- Kindred Hospital Westminster
Questions people ask
Can you send flowers to the ICU?
Usually not. Cedars-Sinai, Ronald Reagan UCLA, Keck, PIH Health and the Providence hospitals all keep fresh flowers out of intensive care, and City of Hope doesn’t allow even silk flowers in its ICU. UCLA welcomes artificial flowers and foil balloons in some ICUs instead, and UCLA Santa Monica allows fresh flowers for some ICU patients if the nurse agrees.
Why aren’t flowers allowed in intensive care?
The hospitals give their own reasons. UCLA cites infection control, City of Hope cites allergic reactions and Alhambra Hospital says ICU rooms have no space for them. Water in a vase and the soil in a potted plant can carry bacteria, which matters for patients whose immune systems are weak.
Can I send balloons to a hospital?
Foil balloons, yes, in most places. Latex is the problem: Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Keck, Huntington, City of Hope, UCLA’s Mattel Children’s Hospital and MemorialCare Long Beach don’t allow latex balloons, because some patients are allergic to latex. A few units take no balloons at all, such as City of Hope’s ICU, the critical care floors at Cedars-Sinai and the NICU at UCLA Mattel.
Can I send flowers to a new mom in the hospital?
Check first. Adventist Health Glendale doesn’t allow flowers or balloons in Labor and Delivery, and Valley Presbyterian and Miller Children’s & Women’s don’t allow latex balloons in maternity. Most hospitals, Kaiser Permanente’s among them, publish no rule for their maternity units. Families often go home a day or two after the birth, so the home address is the safer choice. See our new baby flowers.
What if the patient goes home before the flowers arrive?
Call us as soon as you know, and we’ll change the address. You can change it until your order is handed to our driver. If you’d rather cancel, cancel before 6 AM on the delivery day for a full refund. For Valentine’s Day and other peak days, cancellations close at 6 AM three days before.
Can you deliver to a hospital today?
Yes, if you order before 6 AM. We buy the flowers for each order that morning and deliver between 12 PM and 8 PM. Orders placed after 6 AM go out the next day or on the date you choose. See our get well flowers.
Questions before you order? Call (323) 493-1514 or write to us in the chat.
