LAC+USC Medical Center

A partner institution of the Keck School of Medicine of USC since 1885, Los Angeles County + USC Medical Center is one of the largest academic medical centers in the country.  The medical center provides critical access to health services for the medically underserved.

LAC+USC Medical Center provides a full spectrum of emergency, inpatient and outpatient services.  These include medical, surgical and emergency/trauma services in General Hospital.  Women's and Children's Hospital provides obstetrical, gynecological, pediatric and specialized neonatal intensive care services.

Staffed by faculty of the Keck School of Medicine, USC physicians provide patient care, direct research activities and supervise the training of more than 900 medical residents plus medical    students at the medical center.

As one of the busiest public hospitals in the Western United States, LAC+USC Medical Center records nearly 50,000 inpatient discharges, 200,000 emergency department visits, and 1 million ambulatory care visits each year.  The current hospital offers 745 inpatient beds and construction has begun for a replacement hospital that is due to open in November 2007.

LAC+USC is the largest single provider of health care in L.A. County, and treats more than 28 percent of trauma victims in the region.  In addition, LAC+USC operates one of only three burn centers in the County and one of the few Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Units in Southern California.