The new law took the 1200 State Street building out of compliance of earthquake and fire safety codes. The California Hospital Seismic Safety Law was signed into law on September 21, 1994. The 1994 Northridge earthquake on January 17, 1994, renewed concerns about building safety codes, and specifically those for hospitals. Designed by the coalition of architects Allied Architects Association, its Art-Deco construction earned it the nickname the "Great Stone Mother" and had 3,000 patient beds. The original hospital, located at 1200 State Street, opened in 1933. Freeman Award in recognition of the hospital's achievements to reduce cancer disparities among medically underserved populations. In 2013, American Cancer Society awarded Los Angeles General Medical Center with the Harold P. Navy's Trauma Training Center, allowing uniformed medical professionals valuable exposure to trauma cases that prepare them to treat battlefield injury on the front lines with the United States Marine Corps, at sea with the Navy, or ashore at Fleet Hospitals and Shock Trauma Platoons. Los Angeles General Medical Center also serves as the host facility for the U.S.
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LA General is also the home of the Los Angeles County College of Nursing and Allied Health, which has prepared registered nurses for professional practice since its founding in 1895. LA General operates one of only three burn centers in Los Angeles County and one of the few Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Units in Southern California. The Emergency Department is one of the world's busiest, with more than 150,000 visits per year. Los Angeles General Medical Center is one of the busiest public hospitals in the Western United States, with nearly 39,000 inpatients discharged, and one million ambulatory care patient visits each year. These include medical, surgical, emergency/trauma, obstetrical, gynecological and pediatric services as well as psychiatric services for adults, adolescents and children.
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Los Angeles General Medical Center provides a full spectrum of emergency, inpatient and outpatient services to all including indigent and Medi-Cal only recipients. It provides care for half of all sickle-cell anemia patients and those people living with AIDS in Southern California. It provides healthcare services for the region's medically underserved, is a Level I trauma center and treats over 28 percent of the region's trauma victims (2005). Los Angeles General Medical Center is one of the largest public hospitals and medical training centers in the United States, and the largest single provider of healthcare in Los Angeles County. The hospital was renamed in 2023 to a name resembling its original name, due to confusion with the privately operated Keck Hospital of USC located a half mile away as well as the Keck School of Medicine, whose campus is adjacent to LA General. The facility is one of two level I trauma centers (providing the highest level of surgical care to trauma patients) operated by Los Angeles County, the other is Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. Doctors are faculty of the Keck School of Medicine of USC, who oversee more than 1,000 medical residents being trained by the faculty. As implied by the name, the hospital facility is owned by the Los Angeles County and operated by the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services. Los Angeles General Medical Center, formerly known as Los Angeles County+USC Medical Center, County/USC, or by the abbreviation LAC+USC, and sometimes still referred to by its former name Los Angeles County General Hospital, is a 600-bed public teaching hospital located at 2051 Marengo Street in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. Hospital in California, United States Los Angeles General Medical Center
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