The UCLA Health System / UCLA Impact

The UCLA Health System

Coming in 2008, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center represents a whole new level of hospital design that will keep UCLA on the leading edge of medical science and patient care delivery.

Built for Miracles

At UCLA, the best doctors in the world are performing pioneering work across an astounding range of disciplines from organ transplantation and cardiac surgery to neurosurgery, geriatric medicine and cancer treatment.

More than 100 UCLA physicians are listed among the Best Doctors in America.
UCLA Health System treats approximately 335,000 patients each year.
95 percent of the patients at UCLA Health System are California residents.
UCLA Health System has a staff of over 2,000 physicians.

And we are a committed community partner. In fact, more than 70 percent of our medical students and some 200 faculty participate in community health programs each year. Some of those programs include training Los Angeles firefighters and paramedics to treat stroke victims on-site; and addressing a multitude of child health and welfare issues at the Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities.

With a comprehensive array of research and clinical centers, addressing topics from stem cell biology, AIDS, gene therapy, neurosciences, women’s health and geriatrics, UCLA continues to define what an academic medical center can be.

UC and Health

As the fifth-largest health care delivery system in California, UC trains more than two-thirds of the medical students in California and provides $3 billion worth of patient care annually. <more>

For more than half a century, the UCLA Health System enterprise has been providing the best in health care and the latest in medical technology to the people of Los Angeles and throughout the world.

Simply put, we are a powerhouse of research. UCLA Health System is seventh in NIH funding and fourth in the nation in overall medical research funding.

Consistently ranked one of the top five hospitals in the country and the best medical center in the western United States by U.S. News & World Report, UCLA Medical Center is at the cutting edge of biomedical research, and our doctors and scientists are leaders in bringing the latest discoveries to virtually every field of medicine.

Breakthroughs in Technology

UCLA doctors create breakthroughs in medical technology that impact our lives every day. Choose from the videos below to learn more.

Wireless vitals
(Real Player / 2:19 min)
Quicker test results
(Real Player / 3:27 min)

UCLA... owned and operated on behalf of the 38 million people of California

Driven to Excellence

As one of the world’s premiere liver transplant surgeons, Dr. Ronald W. Busuttil single-handedly built the UCLA liver transplant program into one of the best in the world and has personally performed more than 3,000 surgeries since 1984. Under his leadership, the program recently performed a milestone 4,000 transplants. Now, as chair of surgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine, he has set his sights on making UCLA’s world renowned surgery program even better. <more> (PDF)