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Long Beach Memorial Medical Center and Miller Children's Hospital |
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Long Beach CA |
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Healthcare |
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Healthcare |
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Long Beach Memorial Medical Center's (LBMMC) outstanding record of innovation, medical advances and national recognition is a source of comfort and pride to the community it serves. Long Beach Memorial, a community-based, not-for-profit regional medical center, has been named as one of the safest places to survive a heart attack by the state of California, was named as one of the country's top cardiovascular surgery centers by Modern Maturity magazine, was listed in Self Magazines "Ten Best Breast Centers in the U.S.".
Long Beach Memorial has also earned Mercury Awards for Best Los Angeles Hospital, Best Cancer and Best Orthopedic Programs. These accolades are a result of an absolute commitment and dedication to providing the highest quality health care to our patients.
Long Beach Memorial opened its doors in 1907 as Seaside Hospital in a converted 13-room Victorian home as the community's first hospital. Today, LBMMC is one of the country's most respected hospitals with these specialized centers: the Todd Cancer Institute, Memorial Heart and Vascular Institute, Memorial Rehabilitation, and Memorial Emergency Trauma Center. Physicians and hospitals continually refer their most difficult cases here, and health professionals come from around the world to learn advanced techniques.

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  Welcome to MemorialCare, a nationally recognized, not-for-profit health system with hospitals in Los Angeles and Orange County. An innovator in health care delivery, MemorialCare focuses on evidence-based, best practice medicine. Our physicians and other health care professionals study health care's best practices and work to implement them at all MemorialCare Medical Centers. The results are outcomes that frequently exceed state and national averages. The MemorialCare health system includes Anaheim Memorial Medical Center, Long Beach Memorial Medical Center, Miller Children's Hospital in Long Beach, Orange Coast Memorial Medical Center in Fountain Valley and Saddleback Memorial Medical Center in Laguna Hills and San Clemente. MemorialCare has gained widespread recognition for its unique approach to health care. The organization has been identified as one of the top integrated systems in America (Verispan Top 100), a leading hospital organization for technology (Most Wired Hospitals), one of the best governed hospital systems in the U.S. (The Governance Institute) and for having the top leadership team in the country (HealthLeaders). In addition, all or our medical centers received the highest ranking in the Leapfrog National Quality Forum for Safe Practices. |
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It's who I am... At MemorialCare our unique and exhilarating culture, innovation and best practices in medicine, enables our talented work force to excel. What I do... In one day, our personnel helped a woman walk, counseled a family through a vital change, utilized the best practices in medication therapies, matched blood types for an essential transfusion, produced state-of-the-art CT images of a beating heart and saved many lives. Where I want to be! With five distinguished medical centers located in two California counties, it's no wonder that MemorialCare Medical Centers are the preferred employer of 10,000 Southern California residents. Named Among Best Places to Work for Information Technology (IT) Professionals by Computerworld Magazine  Join one of our teams and be among the best. |
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