About UCLA Health

Among the most comprehensive and advanced health care systems in the world

Our goal is to provide the best patient experience with every patient, every encounter, every time.

UCLA Health is among the most comprehensive and advanced health care systems in the world. Our mission is to provide state-of-the-art patient care, generate research discoveries leading to new treatments and diagnoses, and train future generations of health care professionals. Together, the UCLA Hospital System and the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA strive every day to be a leader in setting the standards of excellence.

We offer an integrated network of primary and specialty care services at more than 280 clinics across Southern California and the Central Coast and at five medical centers and hospitals – Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital, the Stewart and Lynda Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital at UCLA, UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center and UCLA West Valley Medical Center. We enhance access by providing care at numerous affiliate sites and via community-based programs.

For 35 consecutive years, UCLA Health hospitals have earned a place on the U.S. News & World Report national honor roll, a distinction reserved for only 20 hospitals or systems providing the highest-quality care across multiple medical specialties. In 2024, U.S. News ranked UCLA Health #1 in both California and in Los Angeles*.

UCLA Health also consistently performs well in a variety of other assessments of quality and safety conducted by independent publications, accreditation bodies, advocacy groups and disease-specific organizations using a wide range of methodologies.

As an academic health system, UCLA Health offers access to technology and treatments that may not be available elsewhere. Our physicians are world leaders in the diagnosis and treatment of complex illnesses.

UCLA Health doctors and scientists are pioneering work in an astounding range of disciplines – from organ transplantation and cardiac surgery to neurosurgery and cancer treatment – and are bringing the latest discoveries to virtually every field of medicine.

UCLA Health is where discovery leads to exceptional health care.

*Tied for #1 ranking

Our impact and reach (annual data)

About UCLA Fact Sheet
  • 3.8 million outpatient clinic visits
  • 828,900 unique patient visits
  • 98,900 emergency department visits
  • 40,700 inpatient hospitalizations
  • $1 billion in awards to the medical school research program, including $390 million from the National Institutes of Health
  • 35,500 employees
  • 3,650 clinical faculty
  • 5,700 registered nurses
  • 1,370 medical residents and fellows
  • 859 medical students
  • 436 doctoral students
  • More than 280 community clinics across Southern California and the Central Coast
  • 5 hospitals
    Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center: 446 beds
    UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital: 131 beds*
    Stewart and Linda Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital at UCLA: 74 beds
    UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center: 281 beds
    UCLA West Valley Medical Center: 260 beds

*The UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital bed count is part of the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center and the UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center bed total.

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Innovation and Research Breakthroughs

  • Cancer care: Since 2014 alone, research at UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center has led or contributed to 25 FDA approvals of new cancer treatments and protocols. UCLA Health is an international leader in cancer care and research. 
  • Transplants: Consistently among nation’s leaders in annual number of solid organ transplants. 
  • Tissue matching: Faculty member developed tissue-matching test that made organ transplants possible. 
  • AIDS: UCLA physicians reported, described first cases.
  • Brain mapping: UCLA researchers pioneered this field.
  • Gene therapy: Successful clinical trials to treat pediatric severe combined immunodeficiency (bubble baby disease).
  • Stroke: Faculty created devices to stop bleeding from aneurysm, remove blood clots; UCLA has first mobile stroke unit on West Coast.
  • Nobel Prize: Faculty member demonstrated signaling properties of nitric oxide, making possible new medications for heart disease, impotence.

Mission and Vision

Our mission is to deliver leading-edge patient care, research, education and community engagement.

Our vision is to heal humankind, one patient at a time, by improving health, alleviating suffering and delivering acts of kindness.