Board of Trustees Report to the Constituencies 1997 Statistics Loma Linda University Medical Center has grown from a fledgling sanitarium with the inauspicious beginning of admitting just one patient on October 12, 1905, to being a world-renowned state-of-the-art center with more than 33,000 admissions in 1997. 1997 highlights Patient care LLUMC, LLUCH, & LLUCMC Total admissions: 33,357 Emergency medicine & Express Care visits: 80,545 Loma Linda University Medical Center Licensed beds: 433 Admissions: 21,128 Births: 2,836 Outpatient visits: 298,436 Total surgical cases: 14,168 Inpatient: 10,241 Outpatient: 3,927 Outpatient Surgery Center procedures: 6,135 George W. Burg, LLUMC host, welcomes a patient to the Medical Center. He represents the 5,276 employees who help LLUMC continue the healing ministry of Jesus Christ, ãto make man whole.œ Loma Linda University Childrenâs Hospital Licensed beds: 244 Admissions: 8,652 Loma Linda University Community Medical Center Licensed beds: 120 Admissions: 3,567 Loma Linda University Behavioral Medicine Center Licensed beds: 89 Admissions: 2,428 Human resources LLUMC, LLUCH, & LLUCMC employees: 5,276 BMC employees: 227 Medical residents: 520 Nursing staff: 2,000 Volunteers: 1,631 Volunteer hours: 195,073   University | Medical_Center | LLU&MC_home | Search_&_index | News_&_events | Employment | Contact | Our_mission All contents copyright © 2001 Loma Linda University. All rights reserved. Revised Wednesday, March 21, 2001 4:54 PM Send comments and questions to webmaster@univ.llu.edu URL: http: //www.llu.edu