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Several institutions were acquired or established, including Rancho Los Amigos Poor Farm (now Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center) in 1890, the General Hospital (now LAC+USC Medical Center) in 1932, two military hospitals, including the Harbor General Hospital (now Harbor–UCLA Medical Center, after World War II, Olive View ...
In FY 2015–16, the three departments comprising the Los Angeles County Health Agency had a combined annual budget of US$6,942,989,000, constituting about 25% of the county's total annual budget. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] The county's 31,887 health employees were tasked to the County Health Agency.
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.
Harbor–UCLA Medical Center provides medical control for the following Paramedic units: [citation needed] Compton Fire Department – Rescue Ambulance (RA) 41; Los Angeles Fire Department – RAs 33, 36, 38, 48, 51, 57, 64, 79, 85, 101, and 112; Los Angeles County Fire Department – Rescue Squads 14, 21, 36, 106, 116, 158, 161 and 171.
Muntu Davis is the Los Angeles County Public Health Officer. Jeffrey Gunzenhauser is the Interim Health Officer and Medical Director for Los Angeles County. With a budget of 893 million dollars, Public Health has 39 programs and 14 public health centers to serve 10 million LA County residents. [2]
[3] [4] The hospital on the site of the former Martin Luther King Jr. Multi-Service Ambulatory Care Center, originally named the Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center, known as King/Drew. [5] The adjacent Los Angeles County Department of Health Services Martin Luther King Jr. Outpatient Center opened in a new building in 2014. [6]
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In April 2010, L.A. Care was awarded a federal grant to establish a Health Information Technology Regional Extension Center (REC), called HITEC-LA, to help doctors in L.A. County adopt and use Electronic Health Records (EHRs). [19] HITEC-LA is the sole REC in L.A. County, under the terms of the grant.