Los Angeles General Medical Center
Hospital in California, United States / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Los Angeles General Medical Center (also known as LA General and formerly known as Los Angeles County+USC Medical Center, County/USC, County General or by the abbreviation LAC+USC) is a 600-bed public teaching hospital located at 2051 Marengo Street in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, and one of the largest academic medical centers in the United States. The hospital facility is owned by Los Angeles County and operated by the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services. Doctors are faculty of the Keck School of Medicine of USC, who oversee more than 1,000 medical residents being trained by the faculty.[1] Additionally, the United States Navy sends doctors, nurses and corpsmen to train at the hospital, working alongside staff in the trauma center.[2]
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Los Angeles General Medical Center | |
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Los Angeles County Department of Health Services | |
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Geography | |
Location | 2051 Marengo Street Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, United States |
Coordinates | 34.0579°N 118.2089°W / 34.0579; -118.2089 |
Organization | |
Care system | Public |
Funding | Government hospital |
Type | Teaching |
Affiliated university | Keck School of Medicine of USC United States Navy |
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Emergency department | Level I Trauma Center |
Beds | 600 |
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History | |
Opened | 1878; 146 years ago (1878) |
Links | |
Website | dhs |
Lists | Hospitals in California |
The facility is one of two adult Level I trauma centers (providing the highest level of surgical care to trauma patients) operated by Los Angeles County; the other is Harbor–UCLA Medical Center.
The hospital was renamed in 2023 to a name resembling its original name, due to confusion with the privately operated Keck Hospital of USC located a half mile away.