Naming Conventions for UCLA Health

Facility names

• UCLA Health (not UCLA Health System)
• Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center
• UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center
• Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital at UCLA
• UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital
• David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA (on second reference, use
  “medical school,” “school of medicine” or “UCLA's medical school”)
• UCLA Faculty Practice Group
• Jane and Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human
  Behavior at UCLA (second reference can be shortened to UCLA Semel
  Institute)
• UCLA Stein Eye Institute
• Doheny Eye Institute
  • Includes three “Doheny Eye Center UCLA offices”
  • When referring to UCLA Stein Eye Institute and Doheny Eye Institute together:
    • UCLA Stein Eye and Doheny Eye Institutes (preferred)
    • UCLA Stein and Doheny Eye Institutes (acceptable when in context of U.S. News rankings)
• Doris Stein Eye Research Center
• Stein Plaza buildings
  • Jules Stein Building
  • Doris Stein Building
  • Edie & Lew Wasserman Building
• UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center
• UCLA Medical Plaza buildings and locations
  • Peter Morton Medical Building — 200 UCLA Medical Plaza
  • Vatche and Tamar Manoukian Building — 100 UCLA Medical Plaza
  • Wendy and Leonard Goldberg Medical Building — 300 UCLA Medical Plaza
• UCLA Health/MPTF medical clinics
  UCLA Health operates five health care centers in the Los Angeles area
  exclusively for the entertainment industry community.
  • Bob Hope Health Center
  • Jack H. Skirball Health Center
  • Santa Clarita Health Center
  • Toluca Lake Health Center
  • Westside Health Center
• Broad Stem Cell Research Center
  • Use “Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research.”
  • “The Broad Stem Cell Research Center” is acceptable on second reference.

Affiliation references

• UCLA Health Training Center, home of the Los Angeles Lakers
• California Rehabilitation Institute
  • Use “Cal Rehab” on second reference
  • Opened July 21, 2016
  • Partnership among UCLA Health and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and managed by Select Medical
  • 138-bed physical medicine and rehabilitation hospital, located in Century City
• UCLA Health Sports Performance, powered by EXOS
• UCLA Health at home with AccentCare, home health services

Acronyms for internal correspondence
Do you ever feel like you are swimming in a sea of alphabet soup? UCLA Health has its own particular alphabet shorthand. (UCLA is itself an acronym). Recognizing that it's not always practical to write out the full name of our facilities, we offer this guide to acceptable acronyms to use (on second reference) in internal correspondence only.

RRUCLA: Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center
SMUCLA: UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center
RNPH: Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital at UCLA
MCH: UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital
FPG: UCLA Faculty Practice Group
DGSOM: David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

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