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Torrance Memorial was a local leader in the uniform revolt, allowing nurses to wear colored pantsuits as uniforms, rather than the traditional white dress. In 1967, Torrance Memorial merged with the smaller Riviera Community Hospital. The hospital moved to its current site (adjacent to Zamperini Field, the Torrance municipal airport) in 1971 ...
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An enlargeable map of the 58 counties of the state of California. This is a list of hospitals in California (), grouped by county and sorted by hospital name. In healthcare in California, only a general acute care hospital or acute psychiatric hospital, as licensed by the California Department of Public Health, can be referred to as a "hospital."
The emergency department at UC San Diego Medical Center, Hillcrest handles 60,000 patients a year and operates the original Level I Trauma Center in San Diego County. Patients may arrive via ambulance or helicopter, as the hospital also serves Imperial County. [ 11 ]
UC San Diego Health acquired Alvarado Hospital on December 11, 2023, for $200 million, renaming it UC San Diego Health East Campus Medical Center. [10] UC San Diego Health says it plans to continue with its plans to convert part of the hospital into a behavioral health facility, saying it would become the academic home for its Department of ...
Scripps Health is one of the many organizations that grew out of Ellen Browning Scripps’ philanthropic efforts. While the organization was formally founded in 1924, the initiative to improve public health in San Diego began in 1917, when Scripps funded the construction of a new sanitarium, La Jolla Sanitarium, since the health center at the time, Kline House, was too small and poorly ...
UC San Diego Health East station (formerly Alvarado station and Alvarado Medical Center station) is a station on San Diego Trolley's Green Line in the College Area. The station is located across the street from East Campus Medical Center at UC San Diego Health , and near the intersection of Alvarado Road and Reservoir Drive.
Baltimore's R. Adams Cowley, [13], who had founded the first trauma center in the US in 1958, devised the concept of integrated emergency care, negotiating to have first military helicopters and later state police helicopters brought to his Center for the Study of Trauma in 1969. Later, in 1973, Cowley would lead the first state-wide Division ...