Methodist Hosp Of Southern Ca

Description

Methodist Hospital founded in 1903 is a 460bed notforprofit hospital Services provided include comprehensive acute care such as medical surgical perinatal pediatrics oncology intensive care neonatal and adult and complete cardiovascular services including openheart surgery Methodist Hospital is accredited by the Joint Commission For more information please visit wwwmethodisthospitalorg or call 626 8988000

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Mission
Our mission is to provide highquality healing services while caring for the patient as a whole person with emotional and spiritual dimensions as well as physical needs

Vision
Working together we will provide an exceptional patient experience inspired by personal relationships and genuine compassion

Values
Our values are integrity respect and compassion These values shall characterize all our actions and interactions embracing our multicultural environment

History

The Methodist Hospital of Southern California began operating in 1903 with five beds in a twostory house on Hewitt Street in downtown Los Angeles The first patient was a Chinese woman In 1909 the Womens Home Missionary Society of the Southern California Conference of the Methodist Church founders of the hospital began to raise funds for a new facility The Society purchased the former mayors residence at 2826 South Hope Street and determined that it was quotjust far enough out to be quiet just close enough in for conveniencequot

The existing house was outfitted with 18 beds and used temporarily until a new 100bed quotthoroughly modernquot facility was dedicated on the site in May 1915 at a cost of 500000 It was the first major hospital built in Los Angeles of reinforced concrete At the time the surrounding area was one of the most desirable residential neighborhoods in the city
The Hope Street location was further expanded to 225 beds in 1925 at a cost of 600000 The hospital was said to include quotmany modern conveniences radio was wired to every bed so that all that is necessary for entertainment is to plug inquot

Thanks to strong leadership the hospital survived the financial challenges of the Depression years and its prestige continued to grow In 1951 it was approved for internship and residency training by the American Medical Association The hospitals operating rooms were the first in Los Angeles to be airconditioned and Methodist also featured the first postoperative recovery room in the city The postwar population shift to suburban areas of Southern California significantly altered the hospitals future prospects at its downtown location

The existing facility was sold to Los Angeles County and in 1957 Methodist Hospital reopened on a 22acre campus in the Arcadia civic center where a new 3 million 138bed facility had been constructed This was the first community hospital built in California to include a psychiatric unit In addition the hospitals nursery school was one of the first corporate daycare facilities in the United States A number of additions have been made during the intervening years to the original structure A west wing opened in 1967 increasing capacity to 284 beds New surgical and laboratoryemergencycritical care additions followed The newest and most visible building is the stateoftheart 169bed Berger Tower which was completed in October 1998