ABOUT
Harbor-UCLA Medical Center is one of five Level 1 Trauma Centers within Los Angeles County. Every year the medical center supports more than 300,000 clinic visits and more than 90,000 emergency visits.
The Medical Center is associated with the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and serves as a training and teaching hospital for new doctors and nurses.
History
The Harbor-UCLA Campus was established as part of Camp Ross, a United States Armed Forces embarkation point during World War II. More than 10 million tons of supplies and 700,000 troops filtered through Camp Ross over the course of the war.
Established in 1943, the medical center cared for wounded soldiers returned from the war. In 1946 the County of Los Angeles purchased the property from the Federal Government and established the Los Angeles County Harbor General Hospital. In 1951 the hospital began its affiliation with UCLA's School of Medicine, and in 1962 construction of the current 8-story hospital building was completed. On September 1, 1978, the name of the hospital was officially changed to Los Angeles County Harbor-UCLA Medical Center.
Fun Fact: the main 8-story hospital building became famous as the fictional “Rampart General Hospital” in the popular 1972 – 1977 television series, “Emergency!”. Unfortunately for fans, the original setting of the series was completely remodeled in the 2000s.
