Hospital Information
UC Irvine Medical Center
The UC Irvine Medical Center is located in the City of Orange on a 33-acre site. The medical center maintains inpatient and outpatient services in virtually every medical specialty and is fully accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals. UC Irvine has invested more than $100 million in capital improvements in the past decade to upgrade its facilities, expand its medical capabilities and support the myriad of clinical research endeavors of the faculty.
Today, the 443 bed facility is the designated Level I Trauma Center for Orange County and is the principal clinical facility for the School of Medicine’s teaching and research programs. It is nationally recognized for the UC Irvine Regional Burn Center and the faculty’s expertise in the surgical reimplantation of severed limbs. UC Irvine Medical Center has state of the art facilities for the care of the critically ill and serves as a major referral center for neonatal medicine and high-risk obstetrics. The Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center is a National Cancer Institute designated facility.
For information regarding our new, state-of-the-art hospital project you can view the University Hospital Fact Sheet.
Long Beach Veterans Affairs Medical Center
The Long Beach Veterans Affairs Medical Center (LBVAMC) is a 200-bed facility. Its Comprehensive Rehabilitation Service (CRS) consists of a 12-bed rehab unit, Consultation Clinic, Electrodiagnostic Clinic, PACT, six therapy sections - Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Kinesiotherapy, Vocational Rehabilitation Therapy, Recreational Therapy and Audiology and Speech Pathology. The faculty consists of five board-certified physiatrists who are full time. All staff and consultants to the service have faculty appointments at UC Irvine . There are 51.5 therapists among the six therapy sections.
The sole criterion for admission to the rehab bed unit is that the patient must have functional rehabilitation potential. The PM&RS ward has 12 acute beds for patients who require intensive rehabilitation but who no longer represent acute medical/surgical problems. All of these patients have the usual satellite complications, giving the resident an opportunity to practice his/her medical skills.
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