TORRANCE : Hospital Dedicates Primary Care Center
A new health center that emphasizes outpatient care has been dedicated at Los Angeles County Harbor-UCLA Medical Center near Torrance.
The $16.6-million center is expected to ease the demand on the county hospital’s busy emergency room. It houses the primary care and internal medicine clinics, the urgent ambulatory care clinic, outpatient diagnostics and procedures, and an outpatient surgery area.
“The focus is on outpatient and primary care because that is what’s happening in health care right now,” said hospital spokeswoman Cynthia Moore-Oliver. The three-story center is expected to handle more than 63,000 patients per year, many of whom will be walk-in patients with urgent care problems.
About half of the center’s funding came from California’s Construction Renovation and Improvement Program. The remaining portion was funded through the hospital’s operating budget.
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