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Founded in 1878, Los Angeles County+USC Medical Center is the primary
teaching facility of the
Keck School of Medicine, which has been affiliated with the
Medical Center since
1885.
It ranks among the largest acute care hospitals in America.
The Medical Center was first established as a 100-bed hospital with 47 patients. Since that time, it has undergone considerable growth in striving to keep pace with the community's health care needs and to achieve its purpose of rendering the highest quality care. The population of Los Angeles County has grown from 33,381 in 1878 to about 10 million in 2000. The Medical Center's staff has grown from a total of six to around 8,000 and the annual budget has grown from $4,000 to over $700 million. About 1,600 physicians in the community serve on the voluntary attending staff.
Los Angeles County+University of Southern California Medical Center
is located in the center of the city, adjacent to the
downtown area. The campus consists of several buildings,
with the General Hospital,
a beautiful Art Deco structure, towering above the rest.
The campus of the medical school (Health Sciences Campus),
a modern, beautifully landscaped
cluster of buildings surrounding a central courtyard, is
immediately adjacent to the County campus. Physicians and
students move readily between
the two campuses throughout the day.
The LAC+USC Medical Center provides a vast array of emergency, inpatient,
and outpatient services. These include acute Medical, Surgical
and Emergency/Trauma Services in LAC+USC along with Obstetrical
and Gynecological Services, Pediatric
Services, and Specialized Neonatal Intensive Care Services
in Women's and Children's Hospital and Psychiatric Services
for mental disorders
of adults adolescents, and children. LAC+USC also provides
services in the hyperbaric chamber on Catalina Island.
In 1999, LAC+USC
- Provided over 759,000 emergency and outpatient visits of which the DEM provided 188,000 visits
- Admitted more than 47,600 patients for inpatient treatment
- Delivered more than 2,800 babies, most of which are the result of high risk pregnancies
- Conducted over 20,000,000 laboratory tests and over 400,000 radiological procedures
As the largest community provider of healthcare in the community, LAC+USC Medical Center
- Provides more than 28% of the trauma care in L.A. County
- Operates one of only three Burn Centers in L.A. County
- Cares for 50% of the men, women, and children with stage III HIV/AIDS in the region, and about 35% of the HIV/AIDS patients in the County
- Provides 50% of the Sickle Cell care in L.A. County
- Provides one of the few Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Units in Southern California
- Provides Emergency, Inpatient, and Outpatient Services for the most acute mentally ill men, women and children in Los Angeles County
- Provides ongoing clinical training for nearly 1,500 health care professionals,
including over 870 medical residents in virtually every medical specialty,
160 students in its School of Nursing; and a cadre of allied health professionals
such as Pharmacists, Midwives, Physician Assistants, Physical, Occupational,
Speech and Respiratory Therapists, Dietitians, Podiatrists, Laboratory and
Radiologic Technologists.
The Medical Center is licensed for 1,385 beds and is budgeted to staff and operate 770 beds. Owned and operated by the County of Los Angeles. The Medical Center is considered to be the flagship hospital of the six hospitals in the health care system operated by the Department of Health Services.
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