The Campus

Harbor-UCLA Medical Center is a 78-acre facility that includes the hospital and clinics both operated by the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services) along with academic and research facilities under the auspices of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute. The Medical Center is located in Torrance in the southwestern coastal region of Los Angeles County. The hospital includes 514 licensed beds. The Medical Center received full accreditation from the Joint Commission for Accreditation of Health Care Organizations (JCAHO).

The Medical Center serves residents from an area with a population of over two million. The rich diversity of the patient population with regard to age, race and ethnicity reflects that of the surrounding communities, including a large population of the medically indigent. Care delivered at Harbor includes a wide range of acute, chronic, ambulatory, preventative, and highly specialized services. The Medical Center is an integral part of the undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate programs of the Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and the majority of UCLA medical students participate in clinical rotations at Harbor.

Harbor-UCLA Medical Center has a physical plant valued at over $160 million, and the current budget for operating the hospital is approximately $458 million per year. The acute unit is an 8-story hospital equipped for the care of medical, surgical, pediatric, obstetric, gynecologic, and psychiatric patients. There are 10 operating suites, 8 separate intensive care units, several progressive care units, and a large Level I Trauma Center/Emergency Department. The acute unit has recently undergone extensive seismic upgrading to meet current and projected standards.

A major feature of the Medical Center is a 52,350 square foot Primary Care and Diagnostic Center which provides space for ambulatory primary care internal medicine and special procedures including endoscopy, pulmonary function testing, outpatient surgery, and cardiac catheterization. The Medical Center complex also includes the Walter P. Martin Research Building, the St. John�s Cardiovascular Research Center, the Steve C. K. Liu and Milly Liu Research Center, other research laboratories for faculty-investigators, space for clinical investigation, a center for rehabilitation studies, and the Harbor-UCLA Professional Office Building. A full service Medical Imaging Center offers up-to-date radiological services, including a state-of-the-art Picker 2-Tesla magnetic resonance scanner.

Clinical laboratory and other clinical reports are accessed via computer terminals on the wards. Intensive Care Units, and clinics are linked to the Medical Center Information System network. Medical records (including dictated discharge summaries, consultations, and operative reports from previous and current admissions) and reference information are also available through this computer system. The 22,000 square foot A. F. Parlow Library of Health Sciences is located adjacent to the hospital. The library provides books, journals, medical reference services, interlibrary information exchange, and computerized medical literature searches for Harbor-UCLA physicians and staff. Faculty and residents can access the Internet from computers in the library.

The Harbor-UCLA Medical Center faculty comprises both full-time and voluntary teachers. The full-time faculty devotes 100% of their time to patient care, teaching, and research at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. All are faculty members of the Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. In addition, over 900 physicians in private practice volunteer their time to patient care and teaching as members of the Clinical Faculty. The involvement of housestaff with both medical academicians and private practitioners provides exposure to the array of perspectives and to the spectrum of opportunities within medicine today.


The Residency Programs at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center

• Harbor-UCLA has 35 accredited, autonomous postgraduate training programs and also serves as a component of several integrated UCLA subspecialty programs.
• There are 458 residents in Harbor-UCLA specialty and subspecialty residency programs.
• There are more than 297 full-time faculty and over 600-clinical/voluntary faculty participating in patient care, supervision and teaching in the residency programs.

• Harbor-UCLA is the Southern Campus of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and serves as a major teaching hospital for undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing medical education. Harbor-UCLA has a long tradition of being the best teaching hospital for the medical school.
• All members of the Harbor-UCLA Professional Staff Association hold faculty appointments at the medical school and actively participate as both teachers and scholars.
• Medical students rotate through Harbor-UCLA for 3rd and 4th year required and elective clerkships. The Harbor-UCLA housestaff have major responsibilities for teaching the medical students on their respective services.

• Approximately 25,000 inpatient discharges from the hospital, 74,000 Emergency Department visits, and over 272,000 outpatient visits in annually � and growing!
• The patient population is diverse in both ethnicity and in the medical problems that they bring to Harbor-UCLA for diagnosis and treatment. About 50% of our patients speak Spanish. Interpreters are available, and we encourage housestaff to become familiar with basic Spanish. Housestaff who are or become proficient in Spanish are eligible for a salary stipend for their interpreter skills.