UCLA Medical Center

Location
Place	Los Angeles, California, (US)
Organization
Care System	Private, Medicaid, Medicare
Hospital Type	Teaching
Affiliated University	University of California, Los Angeles
Services
Emergency Dept.	Level I trauma center
Beds	600
History
Founded	1955
Links
Website	Homepage
See also	Hospitals in California

UCLA Medical Center is a hospital located on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles in Los Angeles, California. It is rated as one of the top three hospitals in the United States and is the top hospital on the West Coast according to US News & World Report. The hospital has been ranked in the top twenty in 15 of the 16 medical specialties ranked by the U.S. News ranking. Ten of those specialties were ranked in the top ten. UCLA Medical Center has research centers covering nearly all major specialities of medicine as well as dentistry and optometry, and is the primary teaching hospital for the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. The hospital's emergency department is certified as a level I trauma center for adults and pediatrics. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Nickname: Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates: , State County Settled 1781 Incorporated April 4, 1850 Government  - Type Mayor-Council  - Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa  - City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo  - Governing body City Council Area  - City  498. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Largest metro area Greater Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 770 miles (1,240 km)  - % water 4. ... Motto: (Out Of Many, One) (traditional) In God We Trust (1956 to date) Anthem: The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington D.C. Largest city New York City None at federal level (English de facto) Government Federal constitutional republic  - President George Walker Bush (R)  - Vice President Dick Cheney (R) Independence from... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... For the record label, see Hospital Records. ... A university hospital is an institution which combines the services of a hospital with the education of medical students and with medical research. ... A university hospital is an institution which combines the services of a hospital with the education of medical students and with medical research. ... The emergency department (ED), sometimes termed the emergency room (ER), emergency ward (EW), accident & emergency (A&E) department or casualty department is a hospital or primary care department that provides initial treatment to patients with a broad spectrum of illnesses and injuries, some of which may be life-threatening and... Level I trauma center provides the highest level of Surgical care to trauma patients. ... List of hospitals in California (U.S. state), grouped by county and sorted by hospital name. ... For the record label, see Hospital Records. ... The University of California, Los Angeles (generally known as UCLA) is a public university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. ... Nickname: Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates: , State County Settled 1781 Incorporated April 4, 1850 Government  - Type Mayor-Council  - Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa  - City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo  - Governing body City Council Area  - City  498. ... Medicine is the science and art of maintaining andor restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of patients. ... A Dentist and Dental Assistant perform surgery on a patient. ... Optometry (Greek: optos meaning seen or visible and metria meaning measurement) is a health care profession concerned with examination, diagnosis, and treatment of the eyes and related structures and with determination and correction of vision problems using lenses and other optical aids [1]. An optical refractor (also called a foropter... A Teaching hospital is a hospital which provides medical training. ... UCLA School of Medicine or David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA is an accredited allopathic medical school located in Los Angeles, California, United States. ... Level I trauma center provides the highest level of Surgical care to trauma patients. ...

Reputation in oncology research

UCLA Medical Center is well-known as the defendant in a famous Supreme Court of California case, Moore v. Regents of the University of California, 51 Cal. 3d 120 (1990) [1]. The court decided that patient John Moore had no property rights in the immensely profitable "Mo" cell line which UCLA researchers had discovered when they removed his cancerous spleen. Justices of the Supreme Court of California (circa May 2005). ... Moore v. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Epithelial cells in culture, stained for keratin (red) and DNA (green) Cell culture is the term applied when growing cells in a synthetic environment. ... The spleen is an organ located in the abdomen, where it functions in the destruction of old red blood cells and holding a reservoir of blood. ...

Nobel Prize in Medicine

UCLA faculty member and pharmacologist Louis Ignarro's discovery of one of the most important signaling molecules in the human body, nitric oxide, led to the Nobel Prize in medicine. This discovery revolutionized the fields of cardiopulmonary medicine and immunology. Pharmacology (in Greek: pharmacon is drug, and logos is science) is the study of how chemical substances interfere with living systems. ... Dr. Louis J. Ignarro (b. ... R-phrases , , , , S-phrases , , , Supplementary data page Structure and properties n, εr, etc. ... The Nobel Prizes (Swedish: ) are awarded for Physics, Chemistry, Literature, Peace, and Physiology or Medicine. ...

Facility

The center itself is a sprawling 11-story brick building designed by Welton Becket. It is considered a landmark of early modern architecture. The center was built in several phases, the first of which was completed in 1953. The hospital has a "tic-tac-toe" layout of intersecting wings, creating a series of courtyards throughout the complex. The first floor is unusual in that most of its walls are completely clad in a thick layer of naturally-weathered travertine, creating an unusual "organic" appearance which many have likened to "being inside of a tree". The exterior architecture is very simple, consisting of a red brick wall with horizontal bands of stainless-steel louvers over the windows to keep direct sunlight from heating the building. A brick in a wall An old brick wall in English bond laid with alternating courses of headers and A brick is a block of ceramic material used in masonry construction and sized to be laid with one hand using mortar. ... The 3,000-seat Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, opened in 1958. ... Year 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Tic-tac-toe, also called noughts and crosses and many other names, is a paper and pencil game between two players, O and X, who alternate in marking the spaces in a 3×3 board. ... Travertine Travertine terraces at Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park A carving in travertine Travertine is a sedimentary rock. ...

The UCLA "Replacement Hospital"

Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center as of March 2007

The existing hospital complex suffered moderate damage in the Northridge earthquake of 1994 which damaged it's interior mainframe.^{[citation needed]}. Because several hospitals were severely damaged during the Northridge quake and injured people had to be transported long distances for emergency care, the state of California passed SB1953, an amendment to an older law requiring all hospitals to move their acute care and intensive care units into earthquake-safe buildings by 2008. The university is currently building a new UCLA Westwood Replacement Hospital across the street from the current one to comply with the law. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2560 × 1920 pixel, file size: 882 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center as of March 17, 2007 File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2560 × 1920 pixel, file size: 882 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center as of March 17, 2007 File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other... The occurred on January 17, 1994 at 4:30:55 AM Pacific Standard Time in the city of Los Angeles, California, falling on in 1994. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Largest metro area Greater Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 770 miles (1,240 km)  - % water 4. ...

The new 1,050,000 square foot hospital is named after the late President of the United States and Governor of California, Ronald Reagan. It was designed by renowned Pritzker Prize-winning architect I.M. Pei, and has been touted to be the most technologically advanced hospital in the world. The hospital will contain fewer patient beds (525) than the one it replaces. Patient beds in the intesive care units will be accessible to nurses and doctors from 360 degrees, and surgical floor plans will be modular allowing them to be expanded and reconfigured as medical technology evolves. The hospital is to be sheathed with polished marble panels sold at below-market-rate cost by the owner of an Italian quarry whose cancer was cured at UCLA. For other uses, see President of the United States (disambiguation). ... Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (left) and Governor Gray Davis (right) with President George W. Bush in 2003 The Governor of California is the highest executive authority in the state government, whose responsibilities include making yearly State of the State addresses to the California State Legislature, submitting the budget, and ensuring that... Ronald Wilson Reagan, GCB (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States (1981–1989) and the 33rd Governor of California (1967–1975). ... The Pritzker Architecture Prize is awarded annually by the Hyatt Foundation to honor a living architect. ... Ieoh Ming Pei (貝聿銘 pinyin Bèi Yùmíng) is a Chinese American architect born in Suzhou, China on April 26, 1917. ... Venus de Milo, front. ... Cancer is a class of diseases or disorders characterized by uncontrolled division of cells and the ability of these to spread, either by direct growth into adjacent tissue through invasion, or by implantation into distant sites by metastasis (where cancer cells are transported through the bloodstream or lymphatic system). ...

Some of the old complex will be torn down and some of it will be renovated and turned into office space when it is no longer an operational hospital. The law does not require that all parts of a hospital be made earthquake-safe, only the most important parts. Much of the extensive travertine wall cladding from the building's interior will most likely be salvaged and re-used.

Due to budget cuts and other circumstances, the project's completion has been delayed, from 2004 to its current planned opening date 2008.

See also

• Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
• Olive View-UCLA Medical Center
• Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center

Harbor-UCLA Medical Center is a hospital located within the city of Torrance, California, USA. The hospital was founded in 1946, and is funded by Los Angeles County Olive View-UCLA Medical Center Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center UCLA Medical Center Harbor-UCLA Medical Center Website Categories: | | ... Olive View-UCLA Medical Center is a hospital located in the Sylmar neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, USA. The hospital was founded on October 27, 1920, and is funded by Los Angeles County [1]. Harbor-UCLA Medical Center Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center UCLA Medical Center Olive View-UCLA Medical... Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center is a hospital located within the city of Santa Monica, California, USA. The hospital was founded in 1926, and has 337 beds. ...

External links

• Main UCLA Medical Center site

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