Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center
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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. 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.
Address
LAC+USC Medical Center1200 North State Street
Los Angeles, California 90033
USA
+1 323 226 2622
External links
See also
- Knocking, a documentary on Jehovah's Witnesses featuring USC Medical Center
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