UCLA Medical Center is comprised of the UCLA Center for Health Sciences Hospital (CHS), a 590 utilized-bed facility, the Medical Plaza outpatient facility with complete outpatient diagnostic and therapeutic facilities, including an outpatient surgical center and rehabilitation unit, and the Neuropsychiatric Hospital.

The Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, designed by I.M. Pei, will have 517 beds and will be a state-of-the-art hospital with the latest in medical technology and health care delivery systems. The hospital is slated to be open in the spring of 2008.

More than 300,000 people from Los Angeles, across the country, and around the world come to UCLA Medical Center each year to receive care from some of the world’s best healthcare providers. More than 120 of our physicians are cited in The Best Doctors in America, which is based on an extensive poll of thousands of medical specialists. In addition, UCLA ranks in the top three hospitals in the country and the best in the western United States in the 2007 edition of U.S. News and World Report.

UCLA Medical Center is an active tertiary and quaternary center. We house the largest transplant center in the word and attract many patients seeking expert care for a range of unusual illnesses. Additionally, a very large referral base of primary care physicians ensures that residents master the treatment of common diseases.

UCLA Medical Center is also a National Cancer Center and has been awarded NIH Center grants in Cardiology, Pulmonary Diseases and Oncology. In addition to the construction of the new replacement hospital, the Gonda research building has just been completed, and two new research buildings are currently under construction. The current hospital, the replacement hospital, and the research centers are all on the general UCLA campus, a beautifully landscaped and architecturally innovative campus with abundant opportunities for residents to involve themselves with campus life, including music, theater, art and athletics.