New UCLA Medical Center
Dr. James Atkinson, chief of pediatric surgery and executive director of the transition from the former UCLA medical center to the new Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center at the university, gives a tour of one of the new operating rooms. It includes surgical lights with a built-in camera that focuses on the surgical field and whose images appear on monitors in the room and other areas of the medical center. Patients and staff will move into the new facility June 29. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)
A Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department helicopter pilot prepares to land on the new medical center’s helipad during a dry run. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)
Lawrence Comee, a lab technician, places blood on a test tube rack in the clinical lab at the new Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. The tubes are carried along the automated distribution system in the foreground, with each tube bar-coded and sent to the appropriate destination for analysis. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)
Diane Turner, a technician in a processing room, stocks supply carts for operating rooms at the new medical facility. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)
Dr. James Atkinson checks out a patient’s room at the new medical center in Westwood. (Stefano Paltera / For The Times)
Radiology technician Patrick Hale shows off a new CT scanning machine during a media tour of the new Reagan medical center. (Stefano Paltera / For The Times)
Doctors and patients will move into the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center on June 29. (Stefano Paltera / For The Times)
The 520-bed hospital is undergoing final preparations for its opening. (Stefano Paltera / For The Times)
