Torrance Memorial Hospital was established in 1925 in the City of Torrance by Jared Torrance. The current facility opened in 1971 and it joined together two hospitals "Old" Torrance Memorial Hospital and the Rivera Community Hospital. Nowadays, this non-profit community medical center has more than 2,500 employees and the most modern medical techniques, programs and services for providing quality healthcare services to the residents of the South Bay/ Peninsula communities.
Employees and volunteers at Torrance Memorial Hospital the service, excellence, knowledge, and stability are valued as their special abilities to administer compassionate health care and support to people in need of assistance. The hospital has a wide range of medical services and specialties, some of the specialties include Regional Burn Center, Breast Diagnostic Center, Cardiology, Chemical Dependency, Emergency Dept, Health and Healing, Hospice, Maternity, Cancer Center, Rehabilitation, Sleep Disorders and Wound Healing. Likewise, Specialized Inpatient and Services in Orthopedic Care, Intensive Care Unit, Dialysis Unit and full medical/surgical hospitalization.
All those services and the excellence of the staff has made of the Torrance Hospital one of the Top 100 U.S Hospitals, a pioneer in the disease prevention, education and community services, through its Health Links locations and Polak Research Program in which are included Adults over 50, Breast Health, Heart Health, and Support Groups; and an institution with the highest recognition in the community for quality and state-of-the-art medical services in a 2004 survey conducted by the National Research Corporation.
In order to put your health and the health of those you love in the best hands, it is important to take in consideration all those benefits and the real satisfaction of each patient who have received the best health cares in the Torrance Memorial Hospital.