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The UCLA Medical Center

The UCLA Medical Center is made up of the UCLA Hospital and the UCLA School of Medicine, both in the same building. It is situated on the UCLA campus, providing an intellectually stimulating environment for both medical and non-medical interests. It is in one of the most attractive areas of Los Angeles, close to downtown Los Angeles, beaches, mountains and deserts.

The UCLA Medical Center is both a major primary care center and a tertiary referral facility for much of the southwestern United States. Patients are attracted by its many outstanding areas of expertise, such as heart, lung, renal, bone marrow and liver transplantation services and a sophisticated oncology program. It is a designated level 1 trauma center with a paramedic base station.

The Hospital is a modern 711-bed facility with 216 beds for medical patients in general medicine wards, 26 beds in a medical observation unit, 20 beds in a cardiac telemetry unit, 10 beds in a coronary care unit (CCU) and 12 beds in a medical intensive care unit (MICU). Surgery, Neurosurgery, Pediatrics and other departments also have intensive care units from which pulmonary or critical care consultations are frequently requested.

Major sources of both inpatients and outpatients with pulmonary problems or diseases include the Emergency Medical Center (4,200 visits per month), the Internal Medicine Suite (1,800 outpatient visits per month) and the Divisions Chest Clinic (200 outpatient visits per month), and referrals from physicians in Southern California and other parts of the United States. The UCLA Medical Plaza, a new ambulatory care complex, is a major facility that provides the entire spectrum of outpatient services, including clinical teaching and investigation. It contains offices, examination rooms, procedure and recovery suites and a pulmonary function laboratory.

Training and research facilities entirely within the division include the Pulmonary Rehabilitation Program, the main hospital Pulmonary Function Laboratory and the Respiratory Therapy Department. A Clinical Research Center is available for clinical investigations requiring brief hospitalizations of research subjects.

Private and "service" patients (in roughly equal numbers) from all socioeconomic backgrounds are seen as both outpatients and inpatients. All inpatients participate in the teaching program, providing a wide spectrum of disorders ranging from the common to the rare.

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