A History of Caring
Today & Into the Future: 2003 & Beyond
Today, White Memorial Medical Center is a 369-bed acute care teaching hospital staffed by 400 physicians, 1,700 employees and 50 volunteers. The hospital serves more than 165,000 customers annually with a wide variety of medical specialties, including obstetrics & gynecology, pediatrics, cardiac care, diabetes, emergency services, rehabilitation, cancer services, orthopedics and behavioral health.
Visitors to the hospital witness outstanding examples of collaboration between White Memorial Medical Center and the people of East Los Angeles: The beautiful new Cecelia Gonzalez De La Hoya Cancer Center, a memorial gift from boxer Oscar De La Hoya and his family; the MAOF/White Memorial Rainbow Children’s Center, a joint venture between the hospital and the Mexican-American Opportunity Foundation to fill the need for quality bilingual and bicultural childcare; and a number of other facilities, programs and services.
The New White Memorial
White Memorial has embarked on a major building and
seismic upgrading project called The New
White Memorial. Over the next five years, the hospital
campus will be transformed by the construction of a
new main hospital building (to replace the buildings
built in 1937 and 1955), renovation of the East Tower
and North Tower and creation of a new main entrance
and lobby, as well as several related improvements.
Spurred by updated earthquake safety laws following the 1994 Northridge earthquake and the receipt of FEMA funding, The New White Memorial project will result in state-of-the-art medical facilities that are convenient for patients and able to withstand a major earthquake.
Today’s multistory, technologically advanced hospital seems far away from the tiny storefront clinic that opened 90 years ago in downtown Los Angeles. But what undeniably remains is the spirit of Christian compassion and a deep desire to be healing hands in the City of Angels.
