UCLA's Santa Monica Hospital Undergoes Makeover This fall, UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica will officially debut its new campus to the community as the multiphase construction project initially launched to repair severe structural damage caused by the 1994 Northridge Earthquake reaches completion. The hospital, which has expanded from two buildings on a single city block to a campus spanning several city blocks, represents the best of an academic medical center combined with a community hospital, says the hospital's chief administrative officer, Posie Carpenter. "We will provide all of the benefits of a worldclass academic medical center in a setting that provides the comfort and convenience of a community hospital," Carpenter notes. The hospital was built in phases while remaining open to the community. The Tower building, which sustained the most damage from the earthquake, was retrofitted, recommissioned and licensed by the state to operate while construction of the campus continued. "This has been a very complex building project," Carpenter says. The main hospital facility includes a series of four new buildings, in addition to the existing Merle Norman Pavilion, organized in a horseshoe layout, with the main entrance on 16th Street. The number of licensed inpatient beds will be reduced from 315 to 266, but most of the beds in the new hospital will be in private rooms, which makes the available capacity similar between the old and new facilities. The extended campus ...
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