Olive View-UCLA Medical Center (Los Angeles, California)

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14445 Olive View Drive
Sylmar, CA 91342
(818) 364-1555
www.ladhs.org/wps/portal/ValleyCareHomepage

The hospital was founded on October 27, 1920 as a tuberculosis (TB) sanatorium to relieve overcrowding at County General Hospital, and when it was no longer needed for TB treatment, the facilities became an acute care hospital in 1970. In 1962, Olive View Hospital performed the first open heart surgery successfully in the San Fernando Valley, and one of the first in Southern California.

The hospital was known as Olive View Hospital before it became affiliated with the university's School of Medicine in 1970. Olive View Hospital became Olive View Medical Center, a teaching hospital and a new 888-bed hospital was dedicated in December 1970.

Unfortunately, the most spectacular damage during the 6.5 1971 San Fernando earthquake (February 9, 1971) included the collapse of structures at Olive View Hospital in Sylmar. For the next sixteen years, Olive View served its patients through an interim facility at MidValley in Van Nuys.

The new 377-bed-state-of-the-art replacement facility, built on the old Sylmar site, was opened on May 8, 1987. Olive View incorporated UCLA in its name, becoming Olive View-UCLA Medical Center in 1992. In May 1997, Olive View-UCLA Medical Center became a part of ValleyCare, which maintains responsibility for the care of the medically indigent, low income, uninsured residents of the San Fernando and Santa Clarita Valleys.