Identity & Authority: UCLA Health – Signal Evidence & AI Readability

UCLA Health

(https://uclahealth.org) 📸 Data Snapshot: June 20, 2026
Identity & Authority — The Lens

Inspect the JSON-LD. Is there an Organization or Person schema, and does it carry sameAs links to real external profiles (LinkedIn, socials)? Missing schema or no identity declaration signals an anonymous entity.

Identity & Authority Expert verifiability & Schema depth.
14 Impact Weight: 15 / 100
93% Reputation

Authority is well-established through robust structured data on sub-pages, including a detailed MedicalOrganization schema with multiple sameAs links to verified social profiles. One minor gap is the absence of schema on the homepage in the provided crawl, though the presence of named individuals like Karla Murillo and specific medical specialties provides a verifiable footprint. Experts and medical students are referenced in the context of specific, dated events, enhancing credibility.

Marketing claims are consistently backed by evidence throughout the site. The claim of being top-ranked is supported by the U.S. News & World Report banner, and the claim of providing advanced transplant care is supported by the specific inclusion of transplant in the medical services menu. There are no bold performance guarantees for medical outcomes, which is a key indicator of low-BS medical communication.

Identity & Authority is read from the structured data first: whether the site declares who it is in machine-readable schema, with verifiable identity links. Below is the schema captured per page, then the external proof links that support (or fail to support) that identity.

🔗 Identity & Technical Layer — schema JSON-LD: identity chains, entity gaps
Homepage — no schema detected (entity gap)
/locations/search/ — no schema detected (entity gap)
/locations/
{
    "@context": "https://schema.org",
    "@graph": [
        {
            "@type": "MedicalOrganization",
            "@id": "https://www.uclahealth.org/#organization",
            "name": "UCLA Health",
            "url": "https://www.uclahealth.org/",
            "logo": {
                "@type": "ImageObject",
                "url": "https://www.uclahealth.org/themes/custom/uclahealth/images/logos/ucla-health-logo.svg"
            },
            "sameAs": [
                "https://www.facebook.com/uclahealth",
                "https://x.com/uclahealth",
                "https://www.instagram.com/uclahealth",
                "https://www.youtube.com/user/uclahealth",
                "https://www.linkedin.com/company/ucla-health"
            ]
        },
        {
            "@type": "WebSite",
            "@id": "https://www.uclahealth.org/#website",
            "name": "UCLA Health",
            "url": "https://www.uclahealth.org/",
            "publisher": {
                "@id": "https://www.uclahealth.org/#organization"
            },
            "potentialAction": {
                "@type": "SearchAction",
                "target": {
                    "@type": "EntryPoint",
                    "urlTemplate": "https://www.uclahealth.org/locations/search?s={search_term_string}"
                },
                "query-input": "required name=search_term_string"
            }
        },
        {
            "@type": "WebPage",
            "@id": "https://www.uclahealth.org/locations#webpage",
            "url": "https://www.uclahealth.org/locations",
            "name": "UCLA Health Location Search",
            "description": "Find UCLA Health locations by medical service line, neighborhood, city, ZIP code, condition, specialty and location type.",
            "isPartOf": {
                "@id": "https://www.uclahealth.org/#website"
            },
            "publisher": {
                "@id": "https://www.uclahealth.org/#organization"
            },
            "breadcrumb": {
                "@id": "https://www.uclahealth.org/locations#breadcrumb"
            },
            "mainEntity": [
                {
                    "@id": "https://www.uclahealth.org/locations#medical-service-line-links"
                },
                {
                    "@id": "https://www.uclahealth.org/locations#neighborhood-links"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "@type": "ItemList",
            "@id": "https://www.uclahealth.org/locations#medical-service-line-links",
            "name": "UCLA Health Locations by Medical Service Line",
            "itemListOrder": "https://schema.org/ItemListOrderAscending",
            "numberOfItems": 12,
            "itemListElement": [
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 1,
                    "name": "Specialty Care Locations",
                    "url": "https://www.uclahealth.org/locations/search?s=&f%5B0%5D=type%3A746"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 2,
                    "name": "Primary Care Locations",
                    "url": "https://www.uclahealth.org/locations/search?s=&f%5B0%5D=type%3A741"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 3,
                    "name": "Cancer Care Locations",
                    "url": "https://www.uclahealth.org/locations/search?s=&f%5B0%5D=type%3A776"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 4,
                    "name": "Imaging Locations",
                    "url": "https://www.uclahealth.org/locations/search?s=&f%5B0%5D=type%3A786"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 5,
                    "name": "Pediatrics Locations",
                    "url": "https://www.uclahealth.org/locations/search?s=&f%5B0%5D=type%3A781"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 6,
                    "name": "Immediate Care Locations",
                    "url": "https://www.uclahealth.org/locations/search?s=&f%5B0%5D=type%3A756"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 7,
                    "name": "Laboratory Locations",
                    "url": "https://www.uclahealth.org/locations/search?s=&f%5B0%5D=type%3A53351"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 8,
                    "name": "Pharmacy Locations",
                    "url": "https://www.uclahealth.org/locations/search?s=&f%5B0%5D=type%3A771"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 9,
                    "name": "Hospital Locations",
                    "url": "https://www.uclahealth.org/locations/search?s=&f%5B0%5D=type%3A751"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 10,
                    "name": "Outpatient Surgery Locations",
                    "url": "https://www.uclahealth.org/locations/search?s=&f%5B0%5D=type%3A761"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 11,
                    "name": "Emergency Department Locations",
                    "url": "https://www.uclahealth.org/locations/search?s=&f%5B0%5D=type%3A70571"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 12,
                    "name": "The Birthplace Locations",
                    "url": "https://www.uclahealth.org/locations/search?s=&f%5B0%5D=type%3A53366"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "@type": "ItemList",
            "@id": "https://www.uclahealth.org/locations#neighborhood-links",
            "name": "UCLA Health Locations by Neighborhood",
            "itemListOrder": "https://schema.org/ItemListOrderAscending",
            "numberOfItems": 13,
            "itemListElement": [
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 1,
                    "name": "Central Coast Neighborhoods",
                    "url": "https://www.uclahealth.org/locations/search?s=&f%5B0%5D=region%3A52781"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 2,
                    "name": "Conejo Valley Neighborhoods",
                    "url": "https://www.uclahealth.org/locations/search?s=&f%5B0%5D=region%3A52756"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 3,
                    "name": "Downtown LA Neighborhoods",
                    "url": "https://www.uclahealth.org/locations/search?s=&f%5B0%5D=region%3A56071"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 4,
                    "name": "Orange County Neighborhoods",
                    "url": "https://www.uclahealth.org/locations/search?s=&f%5B0%5D=region%3A52766"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 5,
                    "name": "San Fernando Valley Neighborhoods",
                    "url": "https://www.uclahealth.org/locations/search?s=&f%5B0%5D=region%3A52761"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 6,
                    "name": "San Gabriel Valley Neighborhoods",
                    "url": "https://www.uclahealth.org/locations/search?s=&f%5B0%5D=region%3A52771"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 7,
                    "name": "Santa Barbara Neighborhoods",
                    "url": "https://www.uclahealth.org/locations/search?s=&f%5B0%5D=region%3A53356"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 8,
                    "name": "Santa Clarita Valley Neighborhoods",
                    "url": "https://www.uclahealth.org/locations/search?s=&f%5B0%5D=region%3A56066"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 9,
                    "name": "Santa Monica Neighborhoods",
                    "url": "https://www.uclahealth.org/locations/search?s=&f%5B0%5D=region%3A58671"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 10,
                    "name": "Simi Valley Neighborhoods",
                    "url": "https://www.uclahealth.org/locations/search?s=&f%5B0%5D=region%3A61396"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 11,
                    "name": "South Bay Neighborhoods",
                    "url": "https://www.uclahealth.org/locations/search?s=&f%5B0%5D=region%3A52751"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 12,
                    "name": "Ventura Neighborhoods",
                    "url": "https://www.uclahealth.org/locations/search?s=&f%5B0%5D=region%3A56761"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 13,
                    "name": "West Los Angeles Neighborhoods",
                    "url": "https://www.uclahealth.org/locations/search?s=&f%5B0%5D=region%3A52746"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "@type": "BreadcrumbList",
            "@id": "https://www.uclahealth.org/locations#breadcrumb",
            "itemListElement": [
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 1,
                    "name": "Home",
                    "item": "https://www.uclahealth.org/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 2,
                    "name": "Search Locations",
                    "item": "https://www.uclahealth.org/locations"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}
/providers/ — no schema detected (entity gap)
🛡️ Trust Signals — external proof links that back the declared identity
2Review mentions (all pages)
24External proof links (all pages)
PageReviewsProof links
/ (home) 2 1
/locations/search/ 0 21
/locations/ 0 1
/providers/ 0 1