With continual high ranks in U.S. News & World Report, Healthgrades, Newsweek and other leading organizations, Long Beach Medical Center is a renowned teaching hospital. Located alongside MemorialCare Miller Children’s & Women’s Hospital, it is one of Southland’s only campuses where children, especially those with chronic conditions, receive a lifetime of care on one site. Together, the hospitals are the West’s second largest campus, known for innovations in many clinical areas. The medical center’s five consecutive years as one of “America’s Best Hospitals” for obstetrics and gynecology is grounded in its history as the first U.S. hospital-based perinatology program and one of the nation’s largest neonatal ICUs. With 20,000 tests and treatments annually, MemorialCare Heart & Vascular Institute’s many firsts began over 75 years ago with co-invention of the modern-day maximum stress tests to detect heart issues, saving millions of lives globally. Other global firsts include a blood test to determine myocardial infarction, a cardiology computer registry, among the first blood banks for open heart surgery, and revolutionizing the placement, size and longevity of pacemakers. Cancer innovations include among the nation’s first community breast health centers, which along with MemorialCare sister hospitals now screen 75,000 annually in several locations, and radiation oncology breakthroughs resulting in procedures named after its pioneering physicians. Home to countless orthopedic advances, it made history with the world’s first robotic hip revision using Mako Total Hip with 5.0 software. It is also a seven-year honoree of Newsweek‘s “Best Hospitals” overall list.
