1000 W Carson St, Torrance, CA, 90509 · (310) 222-2345
Beds
381
FY 2025
Star rating
1 of 5
Patient survey: 2 of 5
Net patient revenue
$1.80B
FY 2025
Net income
$262.8M
Patient care margin 31.7%
Discharges
20,177
Occupancy 73.1%
Clinicians
307
From the hospital's yearly cost reports (fiscal years as the hospital reports them)
Locations are shown at the center of the ZIP code.
US dollars as reported. Patient care margin = net patient revenue minus operating expenses, before other income such as grants, donations and investments.
| Fiscal year | Net patient revenue | Operating expenses | Patient care margin | Net income | Discharges | Uncompensated care | Medicare days | Medicaid days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $1.80B | $1.23B | 31.7% | $262.8M | 20,177 | $56.4M | 12.3% | 8.3% |
Official hospital quality measures with the national median across hospitals. For ratios, 1.00 means as many cases as expected.
| Death rate for COPD patients | 8.3% | US median 8.5% |
| Death rate for heart attack patients | 12.6% | US median 11.8% |
| Death rate for heart failure patients | 8.8% | US median 11% |
| Hospital-wide death rate within 30 days | 4% | US median 3.9% |
| Death rate for pneumonia patients | 14.6% | US median 15.2% |
| Death rate for stroke patients | 15.3% | US median 11.6% |
Medicare clinicians who list this hospital, by specialty
Inpatient stays by diagnosis related group (DRG), 2024
Official US government data: hospital records, ownership records, yearly cost reports and quality measures, linked by the hospital's CCN and NPI. Financials are for fiscal years as reported by the hospital.
Medicare clinicians who work here
| 2024 | $1.58B | $1.59B | -0.4% | -$199.6M | 20,197 | $69.3M | 9.9% | 15.0% |
| 2023 | $1.54B | $1.64B | -6.4% | -$194.8M | 18,051 | $48.2M | 10.3% | 13.8% |
| 2022 | $1.12B | $1.66B | -48.4% | -$585.8M | 17,695 | $91.1M | 10.3% | 27.8% |
| 2021 | $1.14B | $1.40B | -22.9% | -$324.9M | 17,681 | $38.4M | 10.4% | 34.2% |
| 2020 | $1.17B | $1.17B | 0.5% | -$166.8M | 16,549 | $86.5M | 10.2% | 32.3% |
| Readmission rate for COPD | 20.3% | US median 19.8% |
| Readmission rate after a heart attack | 15.2% | US median 14.4% |
| Readmission rate for heart failure | 23.1% | US median 21.3% |
| Readmission rate for pneumonia | 18.4% | US median 17.2% |
| Serious complications (patient safety composite) | 1.40 | US median 0.96 · worse |
| C. diff intestinal infections (ratio to expected) | 0.42 | US median 0.28 · better |
| Central line bloodstream infections (ratio to expected) | 1.46 | US median 0.48 |
| Surgical site infections after colon surgery (ratio to expected) | 1.09 | US median 0.72 |
| MRSA bloodstream infections (ratio to expected) | 0.31 | US median 0.60 |
| Catheter urinary tract infections (ratio to expected) | 1.14 | US median 0.40 |
| Doctors always communicated well | 75% | US median 79% |
| Nurses always communicated well | 68% | US median 80% |
| Patient survey summary star rating | 2 of 5 | US median 3 of 5 |
| Area around the room always quiet at night | 30% | US median 59% |
| Patients who rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10 | 60% | US median 72% |
| Room and bathroom always clean | 53% | US median 73% |
| Patients who would definitely recommend the hospital | 61% | US median 71% |
| Patients who left the emergency department before being seen | 3% | US median 1% |
| Median time in the emergency department before leaving (minutes) | 313 min | US median 148 min |
| Patients prescribed 2 or more opioids or opioids with benzodiazepines at discharge | 6% | US median 15% |
| Patients who got appropriate care for severe sepsis and septic shock | 51% | US median 65% |
| Healthcare workers given the flu vaccine | 61% | US median 79% |
| 59 |
| $82,279.63 |
| $24,510.14 |
| $10,642.23 |
| DRG 189 PULMONARY EDEMA AND RESPIRATORY FAILURE | 55 | $97,697.35 | $22,916.16 | $9,973.97 |
| DRG 690 KIDNEY AND URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS WITHOUT MCC | 41 | $48,336.05 | $17,570.78 | $5,985.69 |
| DRG 872 SEPTICEMIA OR SEVERE SEPSIS WITHOUT MV >96 HOURS WITHOUT MCC | 38 | $69,725.55 | $20,319.53 | $7,681.44 |
| DRG 641 MISCELLANEOUS DISORDERS OF NUTRITION, METABOLISM, FLUIDS AND ELECTROLYTES WITHOUT MCC | 34 | $54,194.91 | $17,306.76 | $5,829.71 |
| DRG 280 ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION, DISCHARGED ALIVE WITH MCC | 28 | $103,910.29 | $28,113.14 | $12,400.10 |
| DRG 392 ESOPHAGITIS, GASTROENTERITIS AND MISCELLANEOUS DIGESTIVE DISORDERS WITHOUT MCC | 27 | $37,789.33 | $17,264.44 | $5,662.18 |
| DRG 853 INFECTIOUS AND PARASITIC DISEASES WITH O.R. PROCEDURES WITH MCC | 27 | $333,590.41 | $77,443.93 | $40,556.82 |
| DRG 638 DIABETES WITH CC | 25 | $30,956.72 | $18,271.72 | $6,926.41 |
| DRG 312 SYNCOPE AND COLLAPSE | 23 | $43,961.83 | $18,261.48 | $6,636.32 |
| DRG 683 RENAL FAILURE WITH CC | 21 | $42,102.57 | $18,945.71 | $6,629.69 |
| DRG 812 RED BLOOD CELL DISORDERS WITHOUT MCC | 18 | $74,620.56 | $18,972.89 | $7,177.67 |
| DRG 522 HIP REPLACEMENT WITH PRINCIPAL DIAGNOSIS OF HIP FRACTURE WITHOUT MCC | 18 | $64,965.89 | $33,888.61 | $15,768.13 |
Hospital outpatient services by payment group (APC), 2024
| Service group | Services | Patients | Medicare pays per service | All hospitals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| APC 5491 Level 1 Intraocular Procedures | 90 | 73 | $2,274.80 | $1,751.67 |
| APC 5372 Level 2 Urology and Related Services | 68 | 63 | $649.33 | $502.15 |
| APC 5373 Level 3 Urology and Related Services | 54 | 42 | $1,964.73 | $1,516.28 |
| APC 5072 Level 2 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage | 46 | 45 | $1,579.96 | $1,219.56 |
| APC 5191 Level 1 Endovascular Procedures | 42 | 42 | $2,879.92 | $2,207.96 |
| APC 5183 Level 3 Vascular Procedures | 40 | 38 | $3,120.84 | $2,405.01 |
| APC 5492 Level 2 Intraocular Procedures | 36 | 32 | $3,971.36 | $3,116.50 |
| APC 5302 Level 2 Upper GI Procedures | 32 | 26 | $1,858.04 | $1,444.50 |
| APC 5184 Level 4 Vascular Procedures | 28 | 26 | $5,382.99 | $3,945.82 |
| APC 5361 Level 1 Laparoscopy and Related Services | 28 | 28 | $5,651.87 | $4,357.80 |
| APC 5154 Level 4 Airway Endoscopy | 23 | 22 | $3,668.28 | $2,832.62 |
| APC 5193 Level 3 Endovascular Procedures | 20 | 13 | $11,855.53 | $8,873.86 |
Reported payments to this teaching hospital
| Company | Payments | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. TAK | 28 | $129K |
| M.A. Med Alliance S.A. | 9 | $34K |
| Endovascular Engineering Inc. | 3 | $21K |
| Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc. LNTH | 3 | $5,197 |
| Baxter Healthcare BAX | 15 | $1,888 |
| Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. ZBH | 2 | $646 |
| Teleflex LLC TFX | 1 | $264 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $231 |
| Curiteva, Inc. | 1 | $164 |
| NeuroLogica Corporation, a Samsung Company | 1 | $89.09 |
Official US government data on Original Medicare hospital stays and outpatient services; groups with fewer than 11 cases are not published. Payments are those drug and device companies must report.
Lac/Harbor-UCLA Med Center is a government-owned short-term acute care hospital in Torrance, CA with 381 beds, part of Los Angeles County Department of Health Services and a 1-star overall rating.
Lac/Harbor-UCLA Med Center in Torrance, CA has 381 beds (fiscal year 2025 cost report); 538 beds are certified for Medicare. It discharged 20,177 inpatients that year, with 73.1% of its beds in use on average.
In fiscal year 2025 (ending 2025-06-30), Lac/Harbor-UCLA Med Center reported net patient revenue of $1.80B and operating expenses of $1.23B, a margin on patient care of 31.7%. After other income and expenses its net income was $262.8M (13.9% of revenue), so it made a profit that year.
Lac/Harbor-UCLA Med Center is part of Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, a health system with 4 hospitals based in Alhambra, CA. It is a government-owned hospital.
Lac/Harbor-UCLA Med Center has an overall rating of 1 out of 5 stars in the official hospital quality ratings. Patients rate it 2 out of 5 stars in the patient survey.
Yes, Lac/Harbor-UCLA Med Center provides emergency services.
307 Medicare clinicians list Lac/Harbor-UCLA Med Center as a hospital they work at, most often in Emergency Medicine, Family Practice, Internal Medicine.
In 2024, Lac/Harbor-UCLA Med Center had 1,066 Medicare inpatient stays in 44 diagnosis groups. The most common was DRG 871 (septicemia or severe sepsis without mv >96 hours with mcc) with 178 stays; Medicare paid $33,231.51 per stay on average, compared with $15,524.21 across all hospitals.
In 2025, companies reported $193K in payments to Lac/Harbor-UCLA Med Center as a teaching hospital ($8,518 general and $184K for research) from 11 companies.