Architects Daniel, Mann, Johnson & Mendenhall (DMJM) designed the St. Vincent Medical Center in 1969. Established in 1856 by the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul as the first hospital in Los Angeles. In 1913 the hospital became the first in California to be accredited by the American College of Surgeons.
The hospital has claims to many firsts, including the first successful open-heart surgery on West Coast (1957); first to use the surgical microscope to operate on the inner ear (1960); first hospital to offer hemodialysis to kidney failure patients (1962) and first artificial heart implant and first human heart transplantation (1966).
The St. Vincent Medical Center is located at 2131 West 3rd Street in the Westlake neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. Please do not use this image in any media without my permission. © All rights reserved.
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