House Institute

Our History

The House Institute is the preeminent center for the treatment of ear disease and neurological disorders. For more than 60 years, the House Institute’s neurotologists and neurosurgeons have led the way in treating the causes of hearing, balance and skull-base disorders with cutting-edge practices and procedures.

The Los Angeles-based team’s audiological staff works in close conjunction with its physicians to provide the most advanced audiometric evaluations and treatment options to ensure that patients receive the best treatment possible.

Named for the groundbreaking work done by founder Howard P. House, M.D., the House Institute treats a variety of ear-related disorders, including Meniere’s disease, acoustic neuromas, skull-base tumors, neurofibromatosis, surfer’s ear, balance issues, chronic ear infections and much more.

Serving the communities of greater Los Angeles and Orange County with both clinical locations and hearing aid dispensaries, the House Institute also includes a 501-(c)(3) private nonprofit branch, the House Institute Foundation (formerly House Ear Institute), that has pioneered innovative research in otology, neurotology and neurosurgery.

House Institute Hearing Health Centers:

The House Institute Hearing Health Centers is dedicated to providing hearing health care solutions suited for your individual needs. We have hearing aid dispensaries in Bakersfield, Encino and Santa Monica, and offer diagnostic testing and dispensing in downtown Los Angeles and Orange County.

House Institute Clinics:

House Institute Foundation:

Our mission is threefold:

Ear and neuroscience research, education, and global hearing health, “so all may hear.” For over 75 years, the House Institute Foundation has been making groundbreaking discoveries in hearing science, providing professional and public health education programs, and increasing access to treatments, technology, and training in high-need communities locally and worldwide.

The Institute shares its knowledge with the scientific and medical communities as well as the general public through its education and outreach programs. House Clinic physicians volunteer their time to teach specialty courses in the House Ear Institute’s professional education programs, attended by more than 22,000 doctors and research fellows since 1946. Outreach programs for the public serve people with hearing loss and related disorders as well as offer information about general hearing health and hearing conservation.

The House Institute Children’s Center:

The House Children’s Hearing Center is a comprehensive hearing center devoted to the evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of the full spectrum of hearing conditions in children, from birth to 18 years of age. Our primary goal is to ensure every child that comes through our doors receives the world-class care our 75-year history of ear and neuroscience expertise can provide.

The House Institute Ear Clinic, Neurosurgery Clinic, and Hearing Health Centers have all moved to new locations in Downtown Los Angeles.