Harbor–UCLA Medical Center: Difference between revisions

| Name = Harbor–UCLA Medical Center

| Org/Group = [[Los Angeles County Department of Health Services]]

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| Location = 1000 W Carson St., [[Torrance, California|Torrance]]

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'''Harbor–UCLA Medical Center''', is a 570-bed [[public hospital|public]] [[teaching hospital]] located at 1000 West Carson Street in [[West Carson, California|West Carson]], an [[unincorporated area]] within [[Los Angeles County, California|Los Angeles County]], [[California]]. As implied by the name, theThe hospital is owned by the [[Los Angeles County, California|Los Angeles County]] and operated by the [[Los Angeles County Department of Health Services]], while doctors are faculty of the [[David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA]], who oversee the [[Residency (medicine)|medical residents]] being trained at the facility.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.usc.edu/schools/medicine/patient_care/hospitals_clinics/lacusc_medical.html |title=Los Angeles County Hospital + USC Medical Center |access-date=2008-07-11 |work=Keck School of Medicine |publisher=University of Southern California |date=2006-02-10 }}</ref>

The facility is one of two adult [[level I trauma center]]s (providing the highest level of surgical care to trauma patients) operated by Los Angeles County,; the other is [[LAC+USCLos Angeles General Medical Center]].

On December 13, 1983, the [[Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors]] approved the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center as one of the first six [[trauma centers]] in Los Angeles County, all of which were designated Level I. The Supervisors stipulated that they be open for business at 8 a.m. two days later.<ref>{{citation |newspaper=News-Pilot (San Pedro, California) |date=December 15, 1983 |title=Trauma centers get final approval |page=A6}}</ref> Two more ([[Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center|UCLA Medical Center]] and [[Cedars-Sinai Medical Center]]) gained Level I status later that month and still have that standing today.<ref name=file.lacounty.gov>{{citation |title=Report back on improving trauma care countywide and in "hot spot" areas |first=Mitchell H. |last=Katz, M.D.|url=http://file.lacounty.gov/SDSInter/bos/bc/236733_BoardTraumareportNov232015.pdf |date=November 24, 2015 |access-date=December 21, 2020}}</ref><ref name=facs.org>{{citation |title=65 Verified Trauma Centers matched your search (California) |website=American College of Surgeons |url=https://www.facs.org/search/trauma-centers?state=CA |date=December 21, 2020 |access-date=December 21, 2020}}</ref> Today, Harbor-UCLA is the only Level I trauma center south of the [[Interstate 10|Santa Monica Freeway]] and [[Interstate 5|Santa Ana Freeway]] as well as west of the Los Angeles-Orange County line.<ref name=facs.org>{{citation |title=65 Verified Trauma Centers matched your search (California) |website=American College of Surgeons |url=https://www.facs.org/search/trauma-centers?state=CA |date=December 21, 2020 |access-date=December 21, 2020}}</ref><ref name=dailynews.com>{{citation |title=Harbor-UCLA Medical Center makes changes after series of failed inspections, patient death |first=Deborah |last=Schoch |newspaper=Daily News |url=https://www.dailynews.com/2012/04/01/harbor-ucla-medical-center-makes-changes-after-series-of-failed-inspections-patient-death/ |date=April 1, 2012 |access-date=December 21, 2020}}</ref>

The Harbor–UCLA Medical Center campus is home to [[The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation]], an independent, not-for-profit research institute. Originally known as the Harbor-UCLA Research and Education Institute (REI), then as The Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute (LA BioMed), The Lundquist Institute has been conducting [[biomedical]] research, training young scientists and providing community services, such as one of California's largest and most comprehensive [[WIC program|Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Programs]].

Harbor–UCLA Medical Center provides medical control for the following [[Paramedic]] units:{{citation needed|date=November 2014}}.

*[http://gis.oshpd.ca.gov/atlas/places/facility/106191227 OSHPD Project: Harbor–UCLA Medical Center in the CA Healthcare Atlas] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180508024731/http://gis.oshpd.ca.gov/atlas/places/facility/106191227 |date=2018-05-08 }}