| Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center | |
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| UCLA Health | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | 757 Westwood Plaza, Westwood, Los Angeles, California, US |
| Coordinates | 34°3′59″N 118°26′46″W / 34.06639°N 118.44611°W |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | Private, Medicaid, Medicare |
| Type | Teaching |
| Affiliated university | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | Level I Trauma Center |
| Beds | 520[1] |
| Helipad | FAA LID: 75CL |
| History | |
| Opened | 1955 |
| Links | |
| Website | uclahealth.org/hospitals/reagan |
Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center (also commonly referred to as UCLA Medical Center, RRMC or Ronald Reagan) is a hospital located on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), in Westwood, Los Angeles, California, United States. It is currently ranked by U.S. News & World Report, as the best in California and the West Coast (tied with Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, also in Los Angeles).[2] The hospital provides tertiary care to Los Angeles and the surrounding communities.
UCLA Medical Center has research centers covering nearly all major specialties of medicine and nursing as well as dentistry and is the primary teaching hospital for the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and the UCLA School of Nursing. The hospital's emergency department is a certified Level I trauma center for both adult and pediatric patients.[3] Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center is a constituent part of UCLA Health, a comprehensive consortium of research hospitals and medical institutes affiliated with UCLA, including Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center; UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica; Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital at UCLA; UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital; 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 U.S. News ranking. Ten of those specialties were ranked in the top ten. In 2005, the American Nurses Credentialing Center granted the medical center "Magnet" status.[4]
- ^ "About Us". Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. Archived from the original on February 24, 2010. Retrieved April 30, 2010.
- ^ "2022–23 Best Hospitals Honor Roll and Medical Specialties Rankings". U.S. News & World Report. July 26, 2022.
- ^ "Emergency Department". www.uclahealth.org. Archived from the original on February 16, 2020. Retrieved February 16, 2020.
- ^ "Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center – Magnet status". American Nurses Credentialing Center. Archived from the original on July 8, 2010. Retrieved April 30, 2010.