Loma Linda University Health is an academic medical center operating six hospitals, a physician practice corporation, remote clinics in the western United States, and affiliate organizations around the world. These medical services interact with the eight schools that make up our healthcare focused university. This mutual pursuit of excellence leads to outstanding care for our patients and great learning opportunities for our students.
A Seventh-day Adventist institution, Loma Linda University Health is committed to make man whole, physically, intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually. Each day, we seek to extend the teaching and healing ministry of Jesus Christ. More than 16,000 employees fulfill that mission through their nationally recognized quality healthcare delivery. Our internationally-respected researchers publish more than 500 peer-reviewed articles every year, uncovering new approaches to nutrition, cancer treatment, heart disease, neonatal development, stroke and brain trauma, and others.
Loma Linda University Health treats more than 1.5 million outpatients every year and serves as a Level I trauma center for a region covering more than 25%of California. Built for and by our community, our new medical campus and hospital towers help us provide the highest levels of care to even more people than ever before.
Patients come from around the world for our services, which include the worlds first proton unit used for cancer treatments. The groundbreaking efforts of Dr. Leonard Bailey led to the worlds very first infant heart transplants. Today, institutes committed to excellence bring together scientists, teachers and physicians to collaborate on the health issues of our time. The result is innovative approaches in areas including behavioral health, cancer, heart, perinatal service, rehabilitation and transplants.
As we continue to strive for the highest levels of patient care, were proud and humbled by the awards and recognitions we receive along the way. Loma Linda University Medical Center continues to rank among the best hospitals regionally and nationally for safety, satisfaction and specialty care. These recognitions are more than benchmarks theyre opportunities to build upon a legacy of health innovation and dedicate ourselves to the care our community needs today.
Built over the course of nearly a decade, the newly completed Dennis and Carol Troesh Medical Campus is our vision for a healthier future made real. The campus is designed to serve every corner of our community, offering new services, more access to care, state-of-the-art technology, previously impossible clinical studies, and much more. What we're most proud to offer in these facilities, though, is something we started building more than 100 years ago: our unwavering commitment to compassion in healthcare.
The American Nurses Credentialing Centers (ANCC) awards Magnet Recognition for excellence in nursing. Magnetis the highest honor a healthcare organization can receive for professional nursing practice, earned by only 9% of U.S. healthcare organizations.
Comprehensive Stroke Center Certification: The Loma Linda University Medical Center became the first hospital in the region to earn its Comprehensive Stroke Center Certification. This is the highest level of certification, given only to hospitals that meet the highest standards of complex stroke care.
ACCC Innovator Award 2017: The Loma Linda University Health Cancer Center was recognized for its innovative program that encourages RN career development in oncology. The program is an effective tool to minimize staffing shortages and provide better treatment to more patients.
Cancer Program National Accreditation: The Loma Linda University Medical Center - Murrieta Cancer Program earned its national accreditation in 2017. The accreditation verifies the program's capability to provide excellent quality of care for cancer patients.
American Heart Association Resuscitation Quality: Both Loma Linda University Medical Center and Loma Linda University Children's Hospital were awarded the Get With The Guidelines - Resuscitation Gold Award. The award recognizes each of these hospitals for quality treatment for patients who suffer cardiac arrest. The American Heart Association also awarded LLU Medical Center with the Get with The Guidelines - Stroke Gold Plus with Target: Stroke Honor Roll Elite.
Newsweek's Best Maternity Care Hospitals 2021: Both Loma Linda University Children's Hospital andLoma Linda University Medical Center Murrieta were recognized for excellence in providing care to mothers, newborns and their families.
Comprehensive Epilepsy Center - NAEC Level 4 Epilepsy Center: The Loma Linda University Health Comprehensive Epilepsy Center was re-accredited as a level 4 epilepsy center. This highest-level designation means the epilepsy center provides the most advanced medical and surgical evaluations and treatments.