Harbor-UCLA Medical Center

Harbor-UCLA Medical Center is located in the South Bay area of Los Angeles, only six miles from the Pacific Ocean and near some of the most popular beaches in Southern California. (www.losangels.com)

It is a public teaching hospital that is well known for its academic excellence. The facility is operated by the County of Los Angeles and serves a population of 2 million. (www.la.com)

The hospital (www.harbor-ucla.org) supports 35 residencies including Surgery, Medicine, Transitional, Family Medicine, Pediatrics, Neurology, Pathology, Radiology, Anesthesiology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Psychiatry, Dermatology, OMFS and Emergency Medicine. There are 450 residents in the Harbor-UCLA specialty and subspecialty residency programs and 240 full-time and 800 clinical/volunteer faculty. In addition, UCLA residents from various surgical subspecialties rotate through the hospital, which is a major teaching facility for UCLA medical students. The hospital is an academic affiliate of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and faculty members have academic appointments at UCLA.

The main building is an eight-story hospital containing 556 licensed available beds at the present time. It contains Medical/Surgical wards (348 beds), a Renal Transplant Intensive Care Unit (6 beds), Perinatal Unit (55 beds), Pediatrics Ward (34 beds), a Surgical/Medical Intensive Care Unit (44 beds), a Neonatal and Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (18 beds), Coronary Care Unit (6 beds), Acute Respiratory Unit (6 beds), and Psychiatry Inpatient Ward (39 beds). The Medical Center provides comprehensive medical care with complete facilities, including psychiatric, laboratory, diagnostic radiology and imaging (MRI, SPECT and 64 slice CT), and outpatient services. It is also certified as a Level I Trauma Center (trauma catchment area) and designated as a Pediatric Critical Care Center and Pediatric Trauma Center. Opened in 1995, the Edward J. Foley Primary Care and Diagnostic Center is a 53,000 sq ft, three-level clinical care facility housing General Internal Medicine clinics, Medicine Specialty Clinics, a Community Health Plan Clinic, Urgent Ambulatory Care Clinic, and areas for outpatient diagnostic procedures and outpatient surgery. In 2006, the new cardiac catheterization laboratory was completed. Work has begun on a the Emergency Department and Operating Room building (artist rendition shown above). This will be a 190,000 square foot addition to the Medical Center totaling $344 million. Plans for a new ICU have been approved and construciton is expected to start soon. (campus map)

The A.F. Parlow Library of Health Sciences (www.humc.edu/library/library.html) is a full-service library that has over 27,000 books, 30,000 bound journals and receives over 800 subscription periodicals. The library also houses audiovisual programs, computers, literature search capability and audiovisual equipment and provides free photocopying to housestaff and faculty.

The Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (www.labiomed.org) houses over 120,000 square feet of active research space, 250 investigators and over 1000 employees and has an annual research budget of $60 million. It is one of the largest independent research centers in California and one of the top 15 in the United States. It conducts biomedical research, provides education and training of scientists, and provides a variety of community services such as nutritional assistance, childhood immunization, anti-violence programs and various disease education initiatives. Today, nearly 1,000 research projects and clinical trials are being conducted at LA BioMed, advancing scientific understanding in order to improve medical outcomes and promote innovation in such areas as cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, infectious diseases, vaccine research, autoimmune disorders, inherited disorders, male contraception, developmental disorders, various aspects of women's health, and pediatric health problems. The Institute is also well-known for its training of scientists and physician-scientists and a variety of community service functions. The new St. John's Cardiovascular Research Center provides additional research space.  

The current Department of Emergency Medicine consists of Adult, Pediatric and Psychiatric areas. The Adult Emergency Department has 41 patient care spaces and an annual census of 48,000 patients, and averages 30 admissions per day. The Pediatric Emergency Department has 12 beds and an annual volume of 22,000 patients. 13,000 patients are seen yearly in the Ob/Gyn Urgent Care Department and 13,000 patients are seen in an Urgent Care Center run by the Department of Medicine. In total, the hospital averages nearly 100,000 emergency visits each year and nearly 300,000 outpatient visits with 23,000 admissions. Reflecting the hospital's commitment to continuing to improve patient care, plans for the new 37,000 square foot emergency department with 58 adult and 30 pediatric beds have been finalized and construction has begun.

Affiliated Hospitals

St. Mary Medical Center

Second year residents receive their first exposure to the private practice of emergency medicine during a four week rotation in the emergency department at St. Mary Medical Center in Long Beach. With 556 beds, over 37,000 patients per year are seen at St. Mary's in their newly remodeled 24 bed emergency department. One quarter of their patients are pediatric. (www.stmarymedicalcenter.com)

Long Beach Memorial Hospital

Santa Monica - UCLA Medical Center

Wadsworth Veteran's Administration Hospital