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Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center (also commonly referred to as ''UCLA Medical Center'', "RRMC" or "Ronald Reagan") is a
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located on the campus of the
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, in Westwood,
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, California, United States. It is currently ranked the 5th best hospital in the United States by '' U.S. News & World Report'', and 2nd best in
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and the
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(behind
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- also in
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). The hospital provides tertiary care to Los Angeles and the surrounding communities. UCLA Medical Center has research centers covering nearly all major specialties of
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and
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as well as
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and is the primary
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for the
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and the
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. The hospital's emergency department is a certified
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for both adult and pediatric patients. Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center is a constituent part of
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, a comprehensive consortium of research hospitals and medical institutes affiliated with
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, including Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center,
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, Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital at UCLA,
UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital (MCH) at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center is a nationally ranked pediatric acute care children's hospital located in Los Angeles, California. The hospital has 156 pediatric beds, is affiliated with the University of ...
, and UCLA Medical Group. Collectively, the hospitals and specialty-care facilities of the UCLA Health system make it among the most comprehensive and advanced healthcare systems in the United States. The hospital has been ranked in the top twenty in 15 of the 16 medical specialties ranked by the US News ranking. Ten of those specialties were ranked in the top ten. In 2005, the
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granted the medical center "Magnet" status.


History

On June 29, 2008, the new Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center opened and became fully operational, replacing the older facilities across the street. The older hospital complex had suffered moderate interior structural damage in the
1994 Northridge earthquake The 1994 Northridge earthquake was a moment 6.7 (), blind thrust earthquake that occurred on January 17, 1994, at 4:30:55 a.m. PST in the San Fernando Valley region of the City of Los Angeles. The quake had a duration of approximately ...
. Because numerous hospitals in the area were severely damaged during the Northridge earthquake and injured people had to be transported long distances for emergency care, the state of California passed SB1953, an amendment to an older law requiring all hospitals to move their acute care and intensive care units into earthquake-resistant buildings by 2008. Originally budgeted at $598 million in 1998, construction began in 1999 and was completed in 2004. Cost overruns and construction delays attributed to rising construction costs and design changes due to medical advances resulted in the price of the building increasing to $829 million. Equipment purchased for the new building increased the total cost to over $1 billion. The
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contributed $432 million in earthquake relief funds to the project, and the state of California contributed $44 million. Private donations raised over $300 million for the project, including $150 million in
President Reagan Ronald Wilson Reagan ( ; February 6, 1911June 5, 2004) was an American politician, actor, and union leader who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. He also served as the 33rd governor of California from 1967 ...
's name. The new building was constructed to withstand an 8.0 magnitude
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, one of the first buildings in California built to the most recent seismic standards. The new hospital is named after the President of the United States and Governor of California
Ronald Reagan Ronald Wilson Reagan ( ; February 6, 1911June 5, 2004) was an American politician, actor, and union leader who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. He also served as the 33rd governor of California from 1967 ...
(1911–2004). It was designed by C.C. "Didi" Pei of
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in collaboration with his father,
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-winning architect
I.M. Pei Ieoh Ming Pei
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( ; ; April 26, 1917 – May 16, 2019) was ...
. The hospital will contain fewer patient beds (525) than the one it replaces. Patient beds in the intensive-care units will be accessible to nurses and physicians from 360 degrees, and surgical floor plans will be modular, allowing them to be expanded and reconfigured as medical technology evolves. The hospital is sheathed with mechanically honed, cream-colored, horizontally grained travertine marble panels sold at below-market-rate cost by Carlo Marrioti, the owner of an Italian quarry whose cancer was cured at UCLA. The travertine elements were fastened to a sophisticated interlocking panelized aluminum cladding system developed by Benson Industries of Portland, Oregon. The building envelope is designed to resist and survive severe seismic events and maintain excellent resistance to air and water infiltration. The older center itself is a sprawling 11-story
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building designed by
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. It is considered a landmark of early modern architecture. The center was built in several phases, the first of which was completed in 1953. The hospital has a "
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" layout of intersecting wings, creating a series of courtyards throughout the complex. The first floor is unusual in that most of its walls are completely clad in a thick layer of naturally-weathered, unfilled,
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, creating an unusual "organic" appearance. The exterior architecture is very simple (as with many Becket designs), consisting of a red brick wall with horizontal bands of stainless-steel louvers over the windows to keep direct sunlight from heating the building. Some of the old complex will be torn down, and some of it will be renovated and turned into office space when it is no longer an operational hospital. The law does not require that all parts of a hospital be made earthquake-safe, only the most important parts. Much of the extensive travertine wall cladding from the building's interior will most likely be salvaged and re-used.


Facilities


Area covered for the paramedics

Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center has covered paramedic areas for the Fire Department. * Beverly Hills F.D. – RA 1, 2 and 3 *
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– RA 5, 19, 34, 37, 43, 58, 59, 63, 92, 94 and 95. *
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– Squads 71, 88, 89 and 172.


Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital at UCLA

The Stewart & Lynda Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital at UCLA is a 74-bed acute care psychiatric hospital located within the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. Following a donation, the hospital was named for
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and her husband. The hospital has a pediatrics unit, adolescent unit, an adult unit, and a geriatrics unit


UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital

UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital (MCH) at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center is a nationally ranked pediatric acute care children's hospital located in Los Angeles, California. The hospital has 156 pediatric beds, is affiliated with the University of ...
at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center is a pediatric acute care hospital located in
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. The hospital has 156 beds. It is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine, and is a member of UCLA Health. The hospital provides comprehensive pediatric specialties and subspecialties to pediatric patients aged 0–21 throughout
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. UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital features a pediatric level 1 trauma center. The UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital is located on the third and fifth floors of the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center.


Death of Michael Jackson

On June 25, 2009, American singer
Michael Jackson Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and philanthropist. Dubbed the "King of Pop", he is regarded as one of the most significant cultural figures of the 20th century. Over a ...
died from acute
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and
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intoxication at his home.
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, his personal physician, had given Jackson various medications to help him sleep at his rented mansion in
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. Paramedics received a
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call at 12:22 p.m.
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(19:22 UTC), and arrived three minutes later. Jackson was not breathing and
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was performed. Resuscitation efforts continued en route to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, and for more than an hour after arriving there, but were unsuccessful, and Jackson was pronounced dead at 2:26 pm Pacific time (21:26 UTC).


Notable people


Physicians

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*
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– UCLA faculty member and
pharmacologist Pharmacology is a branch of medicine, biology and pharmaceutical sciences concerned with drug or medication action, where a drug may be defined as any artificial, natural, or endogenous (from within the body) molecule which exerts a biochemica ...
Louis Ignarro's discovery of one of the most important signaling molecules in the human body,
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, led to his winning the
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in medicine in 1998. This discovery revolutionized the fields of cardiopulmonary medicine and immunology. *
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Births

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and
Jay Z Shawn Corey Carter (born December 4, 1969), known professionally as Jay-Z, is an American rapper, record producer, entrepreneur, and founder of Manhattan-based conglomerate talent and entertainment agency Roc Nation. He is regarded as one of ...
’s twins Rumi and Sir Carter (June 13, 2017)


Deaths

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on January 29, 1977 *
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on June 6, 1979 *
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on June 11, 1979 *
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on January 8, 1994 *
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on May 26, 1995 *
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on October 22, 1995 *
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on July 1, 2004 *
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on October 5, 2004 *
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on May 25, 2007 *
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on May 29, 2008 *
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on December 5, 2008 *
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on May 18, 2009 *
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on June 23, 2009 *
Michael Jackson Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and philanthropist. Dubbed the "King of Pop", he is regarded as one of the most significant cultural figures of the 20th century. Over a ...
on June 25, 2009 *
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on March 1, 2012 *
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on June 2, 2012 *
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on December 18, 2016 *
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on December 27, 2016 * Adam West on June 9, 2017 *
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on July 6, 2022


Controversy


''Mo'' cell line controversy

UCLA Medical Center is well known as the defendant in a famous
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case, ''
Moore v. Regents of the University of California ''Moore v. Regents of the University of California'' was a landmark Supreme Court of California decision. Filed on July 9, 1990, it dealt with the issue of property rights to one's own cells taken in samples by doctors or researchers. In 1976, J ...
'', 51 Cal. 3d 120 (1990). The court decided that patient John Moore had no
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rights in the immensely profitable "Mo"
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which UCLA researchers had discovered when they removed his cancerous
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.


CRE outbreak

As of 2015, seven people had been infected by and two have died from
carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) or carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE) are Gram-negative bacteria that are resistant to the carbapenem class of antibiotics, considered the drugs of last resort for such infections. They ...
, a drug-resistant superbug. A total of 179 people were exposed to the bacteria via two duodenoscopes which were not disinfected sufficiently. The outbreak is not serious, however, as the superbug is not a serious threat to healthy patients, and cannot be transmitted easily through its own means. The risk of infection via duodenoscope is very low as well, with procedures being performed on over 500,000 individuals between 2013 and 2014, and only 135 cases of CRE being reported as a result. Some doctors believe several more outbreaks of this nature are imminent. Since the outbreak, demands have been made to the
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to improve their regulation and sanitation of medical devices.


See also

* Harbor-UCLA Medical Center *
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*
UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center is a hospital located within the city of Santa Monica, California. The hospital was founded in 1926, and is a member of the UCLA Health. The hospital is also known internationally for operating its Rape Treatment ...
*
UCLA Health UCLA Health is a health system which comprises a number of hospitals, the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and an extensive primary care network in the Los Angeles region. As a regional health provider, it benefits from the academic affili ...
, overarching administrative structure, comprising the UCLA hospitals. *UCLA Health Care, the billing and administrative organ of the UCLA Health System. *UCLA Medical Group, a health care group of physicians affiliated with UCLA.


References


External links


Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical CenterUCLA HealthThis hospital in the CA Healthcare Atlas
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Hospital buildings completed in 2008
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