Community Hospital of Long Beach
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| Region = [[Long Beach, California|Long Beach]]
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'''Community Hospital of Long Beach''' is an acute care [[hospital]] in [[Long Beach, California|Long Beach]], [[California]].
==History==
Community Hospital of Long Beach was founded in 1924 as Long Beach Community Hospital with 100 beds and 175 surgeons and physicians on staff.
Nine years later, the [[Long Beach earthquake of 1933]] shook the hospital but did little damage to the hospital. The hospital provided medical care to hundreds of residents following the disaster.
In the 1940s, the hospital added a new wing, increasing the number of beds to 150.
The 1960s and 1970s saw increasing modernization of hospital equipment and facilities with a doubling of the size of the [[Emergency department|emergency room]], the opening of an [[Intensive care medicine|intensive care unit]], a [[nuclear medicine]] department and a [[coronary care unit]].
In 1980, the hospital was deignated as a Historical Landmark.
The 1980s and 1990s saw changes of ownership. In 1982, [[Health West]] bought the hospital. Through a 1988 merger, [[UniHealth]] became the owners of the hospital followed by a purchase of the hospital in 1998 by [[Catholic Healthcare West]].
Throughout the same time period, additional changes and upgrades were made to the hospital including a [[Neuropsychiatry|neuropsychiatric]] center, a [[neonatal intensive care unit]], an [[urgent care]] facility and a cancer center. The hospital also received a name change to Long Beach Community Hospital Medical Center.
In the year 2000, Catholic Healthcare West closed the hospital prompting a strong reaction from the community around the hospital. After 9-months of “Save Our Neighborhood Hospital” community efforts, the hospital was re-opened with its current name in 2001.
Since that time, the hospital has continued to expand services by adding a 28-bed [[mental health|behavioral health]] unit and an [[occupational medicine]] clinic.
The hospital received a three-year [[Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations]] accreditation in 2003.
==External links==
* {{cite web | url = http://www.chlb.org/ | title = Community Hospital of Long Beach | accessdate = April 27 | accessyear = 2006}}
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[[Category:Hospitals in California]]