Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center

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Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center (also known as County USC) is an 800-bed teaching hospital located in East Los Angeles in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. It is one of the largest public hospitals and medical training center in the United States, and the largest single provider of healthcare in the Los Angeles County. It offers critical access to healthcare services for the region's medically underserved and treats over 28% of the region's trauma victims (2005).

The LAC+USC Medical Center provides a full spectrum of emergency, inpatient and outpatient services. These include medical, surgical and emergency/trauma services in the Center's General Hospital. The Women's and Children's Hospital provides obstetrical, gynecological, pediatric and specialized neonatal intensive care services as well as psychiatric services for adults, adolescents and children. The USC University Hospital provides many specialized services including Gamma Knife for treating cancer and an organ transplant service. This is a private hospital and doesn't have an emergency department, it is used for the specialized programs in the LAC+USC system. It is staffed by Doctors from The Keck School of Medicine of USC. It currently has 269 beds (they are expanding the hospital as of 2004, expected completion is sometime in 2006). Physicians provide patient care, lead clinical research and oversee the training of more than 1,000 medical residents and medical students at the Medical Center.

The Los Angeles County Hospital and the University of Southern California (USC) Medical School were first affiliated in 1885, five years after the USC was founded. The Center is one of the busiest public hospitals in the western United States, recording nearly 39,000 inpatient discharges, 150,000 emergency department visits and 1 million ambulatory care visits each year. It operates one of only three burn centers in Los Angeles County and one of the few Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Units in Southern California.

Marilyn Monroe was born in the charity ward of this hospital on June 1, 1926. The hospital also has a prison ward; in 1954, Stan Getz was processed in the prison ward as his wife gave birth to their third child one floor below. The medical center's distinct Art Deco main building served as the exterior of the hospital in the opening titles of the soap opera General Hospital beginning in 1973.

The USC Medical School faculty leads the care for half of all AIDS and sickle-cell anemia patients in Southern California and provides special clinical care programs for patients with diseases such as multiple sclerosis and diabetes.

In July 2006, County USC's liver transplant program was being investigated for the deaths of some patients who received liver transplants.

The inscription above the entrance reads: The doctors of the staff give their services without charge in order that no citizens of the county shall be deprived of health or life for lack of such care and services.

[edit] Address

LAC+USC Medical Center
1200 North State Street
Los Angeles, California 90033
USA +1 323 226 2622

USC University Hospital
1500 San Pablo St.
Los Angeles , CA 90033
USA +1 323-442-8500

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[edit] See also

  • Knocking, a documentary on Jehovah's Witnesses featuring USC Medical Center
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