| est hospitals in California focus on quality | | | | Magazine. It is the largest hospital district in San |
| healthcare services and state-of-the-art medical | | | | Diego, serving 850 square miles. US News & |
| facilities. | | | | World Report recognized it as an outstanding |
| The ten largest hospitals in California are given | | | | cardiac care facility and it received a Medal of |
| below. | | | | Honor for commitment to organ donations. It |
| USC Medical Center (also known as County USC) | | | | provides wide range of health services in its two |
| is one of the largest hospitals in California. It has | | | | hospitals with 319 beds and a trauma center. |
| 800 beds, serving and providing a full range of | | | | Children’s Hospital Central California |
| emergency, inpatient and outpatient services. | | | | occupies 50 acres in land area and employs over |
| Obstetrical, gynecological, pediatric and specialized | | | | 450 physicians. It is the second largest |
| neonatal intensive care services are provided to | | | | children’s hospital in the state with 297 |
| women and children while adults and adolescents | | | | beds. It is the first pediatric hospital to be |
| are entitled to psychiatric services. As a matter | | | | awarded the Magnet Nursing designation. It |
| of fact in 2005, it served 28% trauma patients. | | | | executes over 9,000 pediatric surgeries every |
| Health workers from The Keck School of | | | | year and serves 60,000 square-mile regions of |
| Medicine of USC staff it. | | | | San Joaquin Valley, Sierra Nevada Mountains and |
| Cedars Sinai is another large hospital with 1,004 | | | | Central Coast. Five visionary nurses started it in |
| beds, employs 2000 plus physicians and 9000 | | | | 1952. |
| employees. U.S. News & World Report | | | | Community Hospital of Los Gatos is one of the |
| Ranking has awarded it the "Best of the Best" | | | | state’s largest hospital systems. It was |
| Honor Roll, in categories of: digestive disorders, | | | | founded in 1962 to meet the increasing health |
| endocrinology, geriatrics and many others. | | | | service demands of the community. It employs |
| In 1945, Sidney Garfield, M.D., and Henry J. Kaiser | | | | more than 900 employees and 600 physicians and |
| founded Kaiser Permanente Medical Center. It is | | | | health workers. It has 143 hospital beds divided |
| the nation’s largest nonprofit health plan, | | | | into the following departments or services: |
| catering to San Diego area. It has 446 hospital | | | | women’s cancer center, rehabilitation |
| beds and 20 outpatient medical facilities. It | | | | center, family birth place, physical performance |
| employs 6,500-person staff and 830 physicians. | | | | institute, joint care program, spine center, silicon |
| The founders remained faithful to their vision of | | | | valley urology hospital, and Parkinson’s and |
| providing convenient, affordable service dedicated | | | | mobility disorders program. |
| to the health and well-being of people. | | | | Desert Valley Hospital is an 83 bed hospital |
| Palomar Pomerado Health or PPH located | | | | located in High Desert, California. It was founded in |
| Escondido, was named in 2006 as San | | | | 1985 and continues to provide healthcare services |
| Diego’s best place to work by San Diego | | | | to High Desert community. |