UCLA Medical Center

Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center
UCLA Health System
Geography
Location	Westwood, Los Angeles, California, United States
Organization
Care system	Private, Medicaid, Medicare
Hospital type	Teaching
Affiliated university	University of California, Los Angeles
Services
Emergency department	Level I trauma center
Beds	520
History
Founded	1955
Links
Website	http://www.uclahealth.org/homepage_med.cfm?id=264
Lists	Hospitals in California

The Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center (also commonly referred to as UCLA Medical Center or "the Reagan") is a hospital located on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles in Westwood, Los Angeles, California, United States. It is currently ranked the 5th best hospital in the United States by US News and World Report.

UCLA Medical Center has research centers covering nearly all major specialties of medicine and nursing as well as dentistry and is the primary teaching hospital for the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and the UCLA School of Nursing. The hospital's emergency department is certified as a level I trauma center for adults and pediatrics. Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center is a constituent part of the UCLA Health System, a comprehensive consortium of research hospitals and medical institutes affiliated with UCLA, including:

Collectively, the hospitals and specialty-care facilities of the UCLA Health System make it among the most comprehensive and advanced healthcare systems in the world. It is rated as one of the top five hospitals in the United States and is the top hospital on the West Coast according to US News & World Report. The hospital has been ranked in the top twenty in 15 of the 16 medical specialties ranked by the US News ranking. Ten of those specialties were ranked in the top ten. In 2005, the American Nurses Credentialing Center granted the medical center "Magnet" status.

On June 29, 2008, the new Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center opened and became fully operational, replacing the older facilities across the street. The older hospital complex had suffered moderate interior structural damage in the 1994 Northridge earthquake. Because numerous hospitals in the area were severely damaged during the Northridge earthquake and injured people had to be transported long distances for emergency care, the state of California passed SB1953, an amendment to an older law requiring all hospitals to move their acute care and intensive care units into earthquake-resistant buildings by 2008.

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