History

Loma Linda University Medical Center (LLUMC) is a 791-bed tertiary medical center, which includes a state-of-the-art 244-bed Children's Hospital to service the unique health-care needs of the pediatric patient and a 120-bed Medical Center. LLUMC is located on the campus of Loma Linda University, a private, Seventh-day Adventist health science university that enrolls over 3,000 students annually in its six schools, including a School of Medicine.

LLUMC is the premier medical facility within Loma Linda University Adventist Health Sciences Center (LLUAHSC), a not-for-profit corporation that also controls Loma Linda University Behavioral Medicine Center, a freestanding 89-bed psychiatric hospital. It is the mission of LLUAHSC to coordinate the clinical, academic, and research functions of Loma Linda University (LLU), Loma Linda University Medical Center (LLUMC), and the Faculty Practice Plans. LLUAHSC comprises one of the four major divisions of Adventist Health Systems in the U.S., which operates 50 hospitals throughout the nation. The corporations within LLUAHSC are each governed by their respective boards of directors.

LLUMC is licensed by the State of California and accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. LLUMC is approved by the Health Care Financing Administration as a Medicare provider (Provider No. 050327). LLUMC's clinical laboratory is licensed by the State of California Department of Health Services, accredited by the College of American Pathologists, and certified by the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendment.

LLUMC is the only state-designated level-one regional trauma center for the four counties of Inyo, Mono, Riverside, and San Bernardino located in Southern California, which comprises about one-fourth of the state's land area. LLUMC is a tertiary and quaternary care teaching hospital.

LLUMC consists of 27 distinct inpatient units that provide patient care for multiple medical disciplines for both adult and pediatric patients. Some of the disciplines are cardiology, cardiovascular surgery, general surgery, hepatology, medical intensive care, nephrology, neurosurgery, obstetrics and gynecology, oncology, oncology surgery, orthopedics, pulmonary, rehabilitation, surgical intensive care, transplantation, trauma, and vascular surgery.

Clinical/basic science research is prevalent in all areas of the transplant programs at Loma Linda University Medical Center, which began in the late 1960s.

Kidney transplantation began at LLUMC in 1967, cornea transplantation in 1977, heart transplantation in 1985, combined kidney-pancreas transplantation in 1993, combined kidney-heart transplantation in 1993, adult liver transplantation in 1993, pediatric liver transplantation in 2001, combined liver-kidney transplantation in 1995, and stem cell transplantation in 1998.

LLUMC's liver transplant program is fully integrated. There is a core group of health-care professionals committed to providing excellent management of the patients. Based on the liver transplantation program's outstanding results, LLUMC was granted approval as a designated transplantation center for adult liver patients by MediCal in February 1997, and received Medicare Certification in 1998. LLUMC's kidney transplantation program obtained Medicare approval in August 1987 and the heart transplantation program obtained Medi-Cal approval in July 1993 and Medicare approval in March 1995. LLUMC is very proud to have achieved this designation for the liver transplant center.