Georgia Street Receiving Hospital

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Windows of a haven for victims of accident and crime are lit up as the night watch takes over. It is Georgia Street Receiving Hospital, which admnisters emergency treatment before sending the patients home or on to another hospital. Photograph dated April 17, 1954. Central Receiving Hospital, founded in 1868, was Los Angeles' first public hospital providing emergency care and paramedic services to the people of the city for more than a century. Throughout its years in operation, the hospital has had five homes: the first Central Receiving Hospital opened at Chavez Ravine (in 1868) as a hospice for victims of pestilence, especially smallpox, but eventually admitted victims of other contagious diseases as well