Teaching Hospitals
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.
Children's Hospital of Orange County
Since opening our doors in 1964, Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC) has provided the highest quality medical care to children. Our regional health system includes a state-of-the-art 232 bed main hospital facility in the City of Orange, a hospital-within-a-hospital in Mission Viejo, and five community clinics — plus over 100 additional programs and services. With admissions growing by 91% over the last ten years, CHOC and CHOC at Mission combined rank as the 16th busiest children’s hospital in the country.
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.
Long Beach Memorial Medical Center
Long Beach Memorial Medical Center (LBMMC) is an 816-bed, voluntary, nonprofit facility encompassing four separate hospitals: Memorial Hospital of Long Beach, the Earl and Lorraine Miller Children's Hospital, the Women's Hospital and Memorial Rehabilitation Hospital. The Department of Rehabilitation serves in- and outpatients of all four hospitals and maintains a total of 84 beds in the Rehabilitation Hospital: 42 acute rehabilitation beds and 42 skilled nursing facility (SNF) beds.
The Medical Director of the Service is a board-certified physiatrist who is assisted by 4 other physiatrists. There are 90 employees, including staff in Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech Pathology, Audiology, Psychology, Recreational Therapy, Program Case Management, Nursing, Liaison services, clerical and other supportive personnel. Administration is comprised of an administrator, 4 therapy managers, a clinical director of nursing and 2 nurse managers.
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Cedars-Sinai is the largest private hospital in California and the western United States with over 9,000 employees, more than 2,000 physicians, and 900 beds. In 2001, there were 77,347 visits to the emergency room. In fiscal year 2003, Cedars-Sinai served 46,854 inpatients and 194,172 outpatients. It ranks in the top twenty of free-standing hospitals with regard to grant funding with sixty awards totaling $20,574,450 from the NIH. In 2007, Cedars-Sinai was ranked by U.S. News & World Report as the 17th-best hospital out of 5,462 medical centers in the United States. It received high rankings in ten of the sixteen specialties, ranking in the top 10 for digestive disorders
Childrens Hospital Los Angeles
Childrens Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) center provides the highest quality healthcare for children who are the sickest and most seriously injured in our region and beyond. Each year, we treat over 93,000 children who need care that is so complex, it can only be provided by medical experts.
The majority of CHLA patients come from Los Angeles County. However, because of our reputation, we receive patients who are referred from the seven counties surrounding Los Angeles, from across California, and around the world.
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