Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center
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Los Angeles County Hospital - University of Southern California Medical Center (LAC-USC). |
The
Keck School of Medicine of USC run
Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center (also known as
County General Hospital,
County USC, or
LAC+USC Medical Center) 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 dosen't have an emergancy department it is used for the specialized programs in the LAC+USC system. It is staffed by Doctors form The
Keck School of Medicine of USC. It currently has 269 beds (they are expanding the hospital as of 2004 expexted 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 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 also 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. 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.
The medical center's distinct
Art Deco main building serves as the exterior of the hospital in the opening titles of the television
soap opera General Hospital.
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.
In July 2006, County USC's liver transplant program was being investigated for the deaths of some patients who received liver transplants.
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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Official site at USC.edu*
Official site at LADHS.org*
Official site at LACUSC.org*
Official site at USCUH.com*
Knocking, a documentary on Jehovah's Witnesses featuring USC Medical Center
