Harbor Hospital was originally opened in 1943 as a United States Army hospital. It was sold to the county of Los Angeles in 1946 and promptly opened as Harbor General Hospital. At that time, the entire hospital was housed in the many wooden army barracks still currently standing on campus. In 1963, the 450,000 square foot main building was constructed and remains today as the primary patient care facility on campus. Most of the army barracks remain today as administrative and research office space. The Medical Center has a tradition of more than 50 years as an academic training facility.

The Harbor-UCLA Medical Foundation, Inc. was founded in 1963, in an effort to generate revenue from private patient care activities for enrichment of the clinical, research, and educational environment at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. The Medical Center complex also includes the Walter P. Martin Research Building, the St. John's Cardiovascular Research Center, the Steve C.K. Liu and Milly Liu Research Center.

An extensive history of Harbor-UCLA Hospital is available on the HUMC website.

Currently, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center is a 553-bed Los Angeles County facility situated on 78 acres in the city of Torrance and serves a population of over 2 million people. We are the Level 1 Trauma Center for most of the Los Angeles South Bay. The Medical Center has an extensive physical plant consisting of the primary hospital, a modern building of nine floors, ten operating rooms, eight intensive care units, a very busy emergency room, plus many outlying out-patient clinics. In addition to the primary hospital, the medical complex is made up of numerous research and outlying clinical laboratories (campus map), including the Walter P. Martin Research Building, the St. John's Cardiovascular Research Center, the Steve C.K. Liu and Milly Liu Research Center, several other research laboratories for faculty-investigators, a clinical investigation department, a center for rehabilitation studies, and the Harbor-UCLA Professional Office Building. Our radiology department has a full service Medical Imaging Center that offers radiological services to both outpatients and inpatients. The current operating budget for the hospital is approximately 300 million dollars.

The Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center receives an additional 50 million dollars annually from extramural organizations for research and has made significant contributions to medicine in the past several years.

Harbor-UCLA Medical Center has resident training programs in Emergency Medicine, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, Surgery, Orthopedic Surgery, Anesthesia, Family Medicine, Psychiatry, OB/GYN, Neurology, Pathology, Dermatology, and many other affiliated fellowships. Other specialties such as ophthalmology, head and neck surgery, neurosurgery, and several others are staffed by UCLA residents rotating through Harbor. A Transitional Year program is also offered.

The new Harbor-UCLA Graduate Medical Education website is also now available at :

http://www.harbor-ucla.org