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Mission
The mission of Harbor-UCLA Medical Center is to provide high quality, cost-effective, patient-centered care through leadership in medical practice, education, and research.  Services are provided through an integrated health care system to residents of Los Angeles County regardless of ability to pay.


Background
Harbor-UCLA Medical Center began as an Army medical facility for the Pacific Front during World War II. After the war, the Army sold the facility to the County of Los Angeles. Constructed in 1962, the present building replaced some of the cottages and barracks that once constituted the hospital. The Medical Center began its affiliation with the UCLA School of Medicine in 1951 and with the UCLA School of Dentistry in 1971.


The Medical Center Today
Today Harbor-UCLA Medical Center is a Level 1 Trauma Center with an NIH-funded General Clinical Research Center. The 72-acre facility is composed of the 8-story, 553-bed hospital, and a 52,000 square foot Primary Care and Diagnostic Center in addition to a complex of buildings, wooden barracks, and trailers. The on-campus Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute, with an annual budget over 50 million dollars, provides extensive laboratory and administrative facilities for faculty investigators. Other buildings on the campus include the St. John's Cardiovascular Research Center, the Walter P. Martin Research Building, the Professional Office Building, the Imaging Center, and the A. F. Parlow Library of the Health Sciences. The total building space is approximately 1,000,000 square feet.

All of the approximately 300 full-time faculty as well as some of the more than 450 part-time and voluntary professional staff hold faculty appointments at the UCLA School of Medicine. They devote their time to the clinical care of the patients, research, and teaching at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. The nearly 450 residents and fellows training at Harbor also contribute to these endeavors. The hospital sponsors 34 Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education accredited residency and fellowship programs as well as other graduate medical training programs. The hospital also serves as a major training site for medical students from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science.