page_title: LAC+USC Medical Center
section_title: New facility
hierarchical_section_title: LAC+USC Medical Center / New facility
caption_attribution_description: English: Clinic Tower of LAC+USC Medical Center, with sign and Metro bus, early morning.
context_page_description: Los Angeles County+USC Medical Center, also known as County/USC, or by the abbreviation LAC+USC, is a 600-bed public teaching hospital located at 2051 Marengo Street in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. LAC+USC Medical Center is owned and operated by the County of Los Angeles. The LAC+USC doctors are faculty of the Keck School of Medicine of USC; care is also provided by more than 1,000 medical residents being trained by the faculty. The complex has been nicknamed Big County in contrast to Little County for Harbor-UCLA Medical Center and research labs.
  In 2019, the Keck Hospital of USC was ranked by U.S. News & World Report as the 16th-best hospital out of more than 6,000 medical centers in the United States, and fourth in the West Coast after the Stanford University Medical Center.
context_section_description: The original hospital, located at 1200 State Street, opened in 1933. Its art-deco construction earned it the nickname the Great Stone Mother and had 800 patient beds.  The 1994 Northridge earthquake on January 17, 1994 renewed concerns about building safety codes, and specifically those for hospitals. The California Hospital Seismic Safety Law was signed into law on September 21, 1994.  The new law took the 1200 State Street building out of compliance of earthquake and fire safety codes.
  To address the problem, a new modern facility was proposed and constructed nearby, at 2051 Marengo Street.  Designed by a joint venture of HOK and LBL Associated Architects, the new $1 billion hospital consists of three linked buildings: a clinic tower, a diagnostic and treatment tower, and an inpatient tower, in total supporting 600 patient beds.  The new facility has a larger number of intensive care beds to handle patients in the aftermath of disasters.
  
  The new facility was ready by 2008, and on November 8 of that year, the new hospital was opened.  Transfer of all inpatients from Women's and Children's Hospital and the 1200 State Street building made the retirement of the original hospital complex official. 
  The old building at 1200 State Street still stands. The Wellness Center, on the first floor of the old building, was opened in 2014. It is open to the public and includes offices for nonprofit organizations, community outreach and classes for wellness activities, a dance studio, a small YMCA on State Street, and extensive new landscaping. While this building no longer meets the California Hospital Seismic Safety Law, it does meet current seismic standards for non-hospital use.
  As of 2008, the original pediatrics & obstetrics ward is abandoned, and sits covered in graffiti, visible from US-101.
caption: The outpatient clinic of the new hospital, opened November 2008.
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