Olive View
THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY / OLIVE VIEW-UCLA MEDICAL CENTER
Olive View-UCLA Medical Center is set at the foothills of the San Gabriel mountains in the northeast San Fernando Valley.  The spacious, newly built facility offers a panoramic view of most of the valley.

This hospital is one of six operated by the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services.  It is a general acute care teaching hospital which serves more than one and one-half million residents of the San Fernando Valley and adjacent north Los Angeles County areas.  The hospital began operations in the new facility May 1987 with a 350 bed capacity.  The Psychiatry Service includes thirty-two adult inpatient beds, an active twelve bed Psychiatry Emergency Room, and a full-fledged Consultation Liaison Service.

Olive View-UCLA Medical Center is a teaching hospital which provides training programs for a variety of health care disciplines in association with several colleges and universities.  Physician education and training programs, undergraduate and postgraduate, are affiliated with UCLA, as well as Psychology & Neuropsychology programs.  OVMC also has cooperative arrangements with the University of Southern California Medical Center and a variety of outpatient clinics for aftercare.

OVMC is connected by freeways to the S-VAGLAHS and the two are only fifteen minutes apart.

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