Los Angeles County General Hospital, looking north

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Aerial view of East Los Angeles and Boyle Heights neighborhoods looking north, revealing the Art Deco Los Angeles County General Hospital (center) surrounded by a multitude of residential dwellings. The Southern Pacific railroad tracks and the 10 Freeway are visible along the bottom of the photograph Soto St. crosses at bottom right corner. Photograph dated July 15, 1955. L.A. County Hospital and USC Medical School were first affiliated in 1885, so the hospital is commonly known as Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, as well as County USC. It has become one of the largest and busiest public hospitals and medical training centers in the western United States offering 745 inpatient beds, treating over 28% of the region's trauma victims, recording nearly 39,000 inpatient discharges, 150,000 emergency department visits, and approximately 1 million ambulatory care visits per year.