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Los Angeles General Medical Center (also known as LA General and formerly known as Los Angeles County+USC Medical Center, County/USC, County General or by the abbreviation LAC+USC) is a 600-bed public teaching hospital located at 2051 Marengo Street in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, and one of the largest academic medical centers in the United States.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 12 January 2025. This is a list of burn centers in the United States. A burn center or burn care facility is typically a hospital ward which specializes in the treatment of severe burn injuries. As of 2011, there are 123 self-designated burn care facilities in the United States. The American Burn ...
In the 1970s, it became the David Brotman Memorial Hospital. In 1984, Michael Jackson was admitted to the hospital due to a serious burn that occurred during a shoot for a Pepsi TV ad. He gave his insurance payment to the hospital and, later that year, the care unit for burn victims was named the "Michael Jackson Burn Center". [2]
Jay Leno has been released from a Los Angeles burn center after sustaining injuries from a garage fire in his home.
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As LA fires burn, see how they compare to the largest in California's history Ignacio Calderon and Javier Zarracina, USA TODAY Updated January 16, 2025 at 12:55 PM
A burn center needs a team approach for the management of critically burnt patients. Usually, the burns management team consists of a plastic surgeon, intensivist, chest physician, general surgeon, Anesthesiologist, Respiratory Therapist, pediatrician, nurses and technicians, microbiologist, psychiatrist, nutritionist, physiotherapist, and social worker.
The American Burn Association (ABA) is a member-based organization of professionals dedicated to burn injury treatment, research, education, and prevention. [1] The 2,000+ members of the ABA span multiple disciplines that specialize in burns, including physicians, surgeons, nurses, physical and occupational therapists, firefighters, social workers, researchers, and hospitals with burn centers. [1]