Loma Linda University Medical Center

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Loma Linda University Medical Center is located in Loma Linda, California, United States, and is a part of a complex housing the various campuses of Loma Linda University. Loma Linda University is owned by the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

These campuses include the schools of medicine, nursing, pharmacy, dentistry, allied health, graduate school, and public health. It is also home to the Venom E.R, which specializes in snake bites. Loma Linda University Medical Center serves as a trauma center for San Bernardino County. It is one of two closest trauma centers for those who have accidents on I-15 or I-40. UMC in Las Vegas, Nevada is the other closest trauma center.

In November 30th, 2004, US Attorney Debra W. Yang mentioned in a press release that Loma Linda University had agreed to pay back $2.2 million dollars in fraudulent billings to Medicare.

The main tower of the center was built in 1967 and is 11-stories high. It is one of the tallest buildings in the Inland Empire.

Loma Linda University Medical Center made international news on October 26, 1984, when Dr. Leonard L Bailey transplanted a baboon heart into Baby Fae, an infant born with a severe heart defect known as left hypoplastic heart. Unfortunately, Baby Fae died a few weeks later. However, this effort led to the successful infant heart transplant program, with transplantation of human-to-human infant transplants.

Loma Linda University Medical Center has also made history with the first use of protons in medical therapy. On October 20, 1990, the first patient was treated with the proton accelerator.[1]