New Santa Monica Campus of UCLA Health System Dedicated. - Health & Medicine Week

Extending its reach in delivering the highest quality care long associated with UCLA, the UCLA Health System - one of the most comprehensive and advanced healthcare systems in the world - dedicated its new Santa Monica campus in a ceremony attended today by doctors, nurses, university officials and business and community leaders (see also UCLA Health System).

Part of a massive, system-wide rebuilding project, the new Santa Monica campus features the UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica; a branch of the Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA; the Los Angeles Orthopaedic Hospital; and the UCLA Rape Treatment Center. The new buildings located at 16th Street and Wilshire Boulevard will open for patient care in early 2012.

'We are proud to introduce another pillar of our world-class UCLA Health System,'' said UCLA Chancellor Gene Block. 'The Santa Monica Campus provides a magnificent environment for healing, and it strengthens UCLA's capacity to offer the highest level of compassionate, state-of-the-art care to families in our local communities.''

The new campus complements existing, world-class services provided by UCLA Health System facilities that include Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Stewart and Lynda Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital at UCLA, the Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA, and more than 80 primary and specialty offices throughout greater Los Angeles.

Posie Carpenter, chief administrative officer of UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica, said the new campus will provide the full continuum of services, from neonatal intensive care to geriatric medicine, in a welcoming, yet technologically advanced facility

'Our Santa Monica campus will be a jewel of the UCLA Health System,' she said. 'Supported by the best doctors, nurses and hospital staff, this campus will help us improve overall patient care and bolster our continued growth into an academic medical center with longstanding community ties.'

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This article was prepared by Health & Medicine Week editors from staff and other reports. Copyright 2011, Health & Medicine Week via NewsRx.com.