'County Med' still dwarfs other hospitals: it plans a $1.4 billion revamping despite budget crisis.|County Med' still dwarfs other hospitals The Southland's hospital industry remains dominated by the government and non-profit sectors, with only two of Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County's 40 largest hospitals being private, for-profit concerns. Those are some of the findings in The List published in this week's Business Journal. The biggest hospital in the region - and, in fact, the entire nation - is Los Angeles County USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. Medical Center, with more than 2,000 licensed beds, although county budget restrictions prevent more than 1,300 beds from being full at any time. Big "County Med," a classic urban public hospital, is famous both as a teaching hospital for USC and as the health care provider of first and last resort for thousands of ill and injured poor people every week. As a public facility it will not turn anyone away from its doors, and its emergency room is always working. For Jerry Buckingham, top administrator at County Med, the budget next year looks tough, given the state fiscal crisis. "The next budget year looks like the worst since I took this job five years ago. We may have trouble hiring enough nurses." Despite current fiscal tightness, Buckingham is planning a $1.4 billion re-do of County Med, which would move 350 beds to the San Gabriel Valley The San Gabriel Valley is one of the principal valleys of southern California. It lies to the east of the city of Los Angeles, to the north of the Puente Hills, to the south of the San Gabriel Mountains, and to the west of the Inland Empire. and build a new plant downtown with 1,300 beds. "This place is falling down around us," he says of the present County Med building, an Art Deco art deco (ärt dĕkō`; är dākō`, ärt) or art moderne (är môdĕrn`, ärt) structure that sometimes spews water into the emergency rooms. The No. 2 hospital on The List is giant Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is a world-renowned hospital located in Los Angeles, California. History Cedars-Sinai is the result of a merger in 1961 between two major Los Angeles hospitals, Cedars of Lebanon and Mount Sinai Home for the Incurables, with Steve Broidy as , in Los Angeles near the Beverly Hills Beverly Hills, city (1990 pop. 31,971), Los Angeles co., S Calif., completely surrounded by the city of Los Angeles; inc. 1914. The largely residential city is home to many motion-picture and television personalities. city line, and beneficiary of many Westside fund-raising drives. The third largest local hospital is the federally funded Veterans Administration Medical Center-West Los Angeles, the marvelously landscaped facility just west of UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX . The VA is where military veterans get medical care for free. VA hospitals are a major presence in Los Angeles; the fourth and sixth largest hospitals in the area are also VA facilities. While the largest hospitals are secular in nature, many of the hospitals on the The List are ecclesiastical, such as St. Joseph in Burbank, Glendale Adventist in Glendale, Saint Mary in Long Beach and St. Johns in Santa Monica. The two for-profit hospitals in the Top 40 are Brotman Medical Center Brotman Medical Center (BMC) is a hospital in Culver City, California, USA. History The hospital was founded in 1924.[1]. On September 1, 2005, Brotman Medical Center changed owners. The new owners are a group led by Prospect Medical Holdings, Inc. in Culver City and the AMI Tarzana Regional Medical Center. PHOTO : Los Angeles County USC Medical Center: The largest hospital in the United States |
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