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USC Arcadia Hospital was founded in 1903 by the Women’s Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Church. Having been founded in one of the busiest parts of the country, our full-service hospital has grown significantly in the last 100 years. We currently have 348 licensed beds, and treat more than 40,000 patients in the Emergency Department each year. We have spared no effort to provide our patients with the best care possible. Our facility is outfitted with advanced diagnostic technology like the 320-slice CT scanner and high-definition MRI. We also manage state-of-the-art catheterization labs, electrophysiology, and neuro-interventional radiology.
It is the mission of USC Arcadia Hospital to provide high-quality healing services while caring for the patient’s emotional and spiritual needs and enabling them to achieve health for life.
From our hospital’s outset, it was our vision to provide an exceptional patient experience through compassionate care and create lifelong relationships by changing the way health and healthcare are delivered in our community. To meet these goals we instill core values into our staff that keep us focused on the excellent care we aim for.
Our facility is equipped to handle virtually every medical situation. Our services range from obstetrics to complex neurosurgery, and several of our departments have been recognized as Centers of Excellence.
In addition to our medical care, we also do our part for the local area through community services. Some of these include a spiritual care chaplaincy training program, senior services, and a cancer resource center. We also host support groups for diabetes, grief, heart care, cancer, and weight-loss.
Visit our Services page for a full list of our medical care and treatments.
At USC Arcadia Hospital, we are constantly striving to meet the challenges of our local area. Hospital closures in the local area have placed greater demand on our emergency services and specialized care. We are completely dedicated to giving our community accessible, high-quality healthcare and we will continue to put our all into meeting these challenges and any others that come with the future. Upon your first visit with us, our staff will go above and beyond to prove to you that we can be your trusted, lifelong allies in healthcare.
Becker’s Hospital Review “Great Community Hospitals List 2023” – Recognized for providing clinical excellence, compassionate care and positive economic impact in the community.
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Our goal is to improve the health status of our community by empowering citizens to make healthy life choices.
Through community outreach, we establish meaningful partnerships with the faith community, educational institutions, legislative and appointed officials, community-based organizations and other groups to promote wellness and a healthier lifestyle for all San Gabriel Valley residents.
Promoting health education and wellness are keys to building a community that is able to nurture its children, teenagers, families and seniors. Today, as we continue our long tradition of service to local residents, our Community Outreach Department utilizes the strengths of the hospital and those of other well-established community organizations to establish innovative strategies to reach the most vulnerable sectors of our population, and to meet many other pressing health care needs in our area.
We also promote our Health Education Program by offering lectures with physician experts and health care specialists as well as a variety of benefits throughout the year including:
To learn more about our upcoming community outreach events, click here or email uah-communityoutreach@med.usc.edu.
If you have any comments, feel free to send us an email at info@med.usc.edu.
Compassion, integrity, and respect in everything we do are important values to all of us who are associated with USC Arcadia Hospital. We are committed to providing the best quality health care and services in full compliance with our mission and corporate values. We are committed to adhering to these laws, government regulations, third-party payor agreements and our own policies, and we have implemented a corporate compliance program to assist in this process.
Toll-free compliance hotline is 626-898-8877.
You can call our 24-hour, 365-day compliance hotline. Anyone may use this line anonymously at any time to report compliance or ethics concerns.
No attempt will be made to identify callers who request anonymity. Whenever callers disclose their identities, that information will be held in confidence to the fullest extent practical or allowed by law.
Callers should provide detailed information to ensure that an effective investigation can be conducted to resolve matters.
Open lines of communication are important to the success of the compliance program and to the reduction of any potential for fraud, abuse or waste.
Our compliance program relies on those who are willing to raise issues so that necessary corrections might be made through prevention, detection, and resolution of instances of conduct that do not conform to federal and state rules and regulations or hospital policies and procedures.
Take the 210 Freeway (Foothill) East and take the Santa Anita Avenue exit. Go south and make a right on Huntington Drive. Please note that Huntington Drive splits at this point. Take the left fork of Huntington Drive. The Le Meridien Hotel will be on your left and the Santa Anita Park Race Track on your right. The hospital will be on your left.
Take the 10 Freeway (San Bernardino) West and merge onto the 605 Freeway (San Gabriel River) North. As soon as you reach the 210 Freeway (Foothill), take the 210 Freeway West. Take the Santa Anita Avenue exit and head south. Make a right on Huntington Drive. Please note that Huntington Drive splits at this point. Take the left fork of Huntington Drive. The Le Meridien Hotel will be on your left and the Santa Anita Park Race Track on your right. The hospital will be on your left.
Take the 605 Freeway (San Gabriel River) North. As soon as you reach the 210 Freeway (Foothill), take the 210 Freeway West. Take the Santa Anita Avenue exit and head south. Make a right on Huntington Drive. Please note that Huntington Drive splits at this point. Take the left fork of Huntington Drive. The Le Meridien Hotel will be on your left and the Santa Anita Park Race Track on your right. The hospital will be on your left.
All visitors to the main hospital are encouraged to park in Lot A. Please walk through our main entrance and stop by our information desk for any in-house directions and to receive a visitor pass.
All visitors to Transitional Care Unit (TCU) or Rehab are encouraged to park in Lot D.
Colorectal Surgery Institute (Sixth Floor Suite 618) – 301 Building parking lot GYN Oncology Institute – GYN Oncology Institute parking lot Cardiac Rehab (East Wing) – Lot B Wound Healing Center (East Wing) – Lot B
The USC Arcadia Hospital began operating in 1903 with five beds in a two-story house on Hewitt Street in downtown Los Angeles. The first patient was a Chinese woman. In 1909, the Women’s Home Missionary Society of the Southern California Conference of the Methodist Church, founders of the hospital, began to raise funds for a new facility. The Society purchased the former mayor’s residence at 2826 South Hope Street and determined that it was “just far enough out to be quiet, just close enough in for convenience.
The existing house was outfitted with 18 beds and used temporarily until a new 100-bed “thoroughly modern” facility was dedicated on the site in May 1915 at a cost of $500,000. It was the first major hospital built in Los Angeles of reinforced concrete. At the time, the surrounding area was one of the most desirable residential neighborhoods in the city.
The Hope Street location was further expanded to 225 beds in 1925 at a cost of $600,000. The hospital was said to include “many modern conveniences – radio was wired to every bed so that all that is necessary for entertainment is to plug in.”
Thanks to strong leadership, the hospital survived the financial challenges of the Depression years, and its prestige continued to grow. In 1951, it was approved for internship and residency training by the American Medical Association. The hospital’s operating rooms were the first in Los Angeles to be air-conditioned, and Methodist also featured the first post-operative recovery room in the city. The postwar population shift to suburban areas of Southern California significantly altered the hospital’s future prospects at its downtown location.
The existing facility was sold to Los Angeles County, and in 1957, Methodist Hospital reopened on a 22-acre campus in the Arcadia civic center, where a new $3 million, 138-bed facility had been constructed. This was the first community hospital built in California to include a psychiatric unit. In addition, the hospital’s nursery school was one of the first corporate day-care facilities in the United States. A number of additions have been made during the intervening years to the original structure. A west wing opened in 1967, increasing capacity to 284 beds.
New surgical and laboratory/emergency/critical care additions followed. The 169-bed Berger Tower was completed in October 1998. In September 2011, the hospital opened the North Tower with 120 medical surgical beds, 20 CCU beds, and an expanded emergency department with 28 beds and an additional 18-bed observation unit.
USC Arcadia Hospital has been serving communities in the San Gabriel Valley since relocating to Arcadia from Los Angeles in 1957.
With a population of nearly half a million, this area includes Arcadia, Azusa, Baldwin Park, Bradbury, Duarte, El Monte, Monrovia, Pasadena, Rosemead, San Gabriel, Sierra Madre and Temple City.
The Chaplain is a member of the health care team and assists staff in understanding the patient’s spiritual and cultural needs as part of their care plan. The Chaplain provides a listening ear to patients, family, and staff. Chaplains can be a liaison between the patient, the patient’s families and the staff. Our USC Arcadia Chaplains are sensitive to the diversity and listens, comforts, encourages and prays for the patient in ways that help them draw upon their spiritual resources for coping and healing.
Chaplains are available 24-hours a day, seven days a week. Any specific religious/spiritual requests such as a Catholic Priest or a specific faith practitioner is made through the Spiritual Care Department or the Chaplain on-call.
The Spiritual Care staff includes student chaplains who are doing their clinical work at USC Arcadia Hospital in preparation for professional ministry. These students are seminary students who come from around the world to take part in this accredited Clinical Pastoral Education program. In combination with staff the students help provide the hospital with a multi-faith and multi-cultural chaplaincy staff.
The Hospital’s Interfaith Chapel and the Healing Garden are located on the first floor near the back door of the hospital. The Chapel is always open for reflection, meditation, and prayer.
The Spiritual Care Department provides a meditation channel for patients and their families. It is shown on Channel 6 on the TV in the patient rooms.
For more information please contact our Spiritual Care Department at 626-574-3433.
USC Arcadia Hospital’s Health Ministries (Parish Nurse) Program develops and supports holistic health programs in faith communities. The program is designed to enhance the ability of faith communities to promote health – body, mind and spirit – to individuals, families, groups, and the community. USC Arcadia Hospital provides education, information, and resources in the areas of disease prevention and wellness promotion to improve the health of our community.
USC Arcadia Hospital helps each interested faith community establish a health cabinet and select a health minister (Parish Nurse). Based on a health needs assessment of each faith community, an individualized program is developed to care for the “whole” person. The parish nurse does not provide “hands-on” care. Their roles include education, health counseling, referral, training of volunteers, providing for health screenings, and translating the relationship between faith and health.
The Health Ministries Program enhances understanding of the body and spirit connection through:
Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) is interfaith professional education for ministry which brings students into supervised encounters with persons in crisis. Out of intense involvement with people in need, and feedback from peers and teachers, students develop an awareness of themselves as persons and of the needs of those to whom they minister. Through reflection on specific human situations, they deepen their understanding of ministry. Within the interdisciplinary team process of helping people in need, they develop skills in interpersonal and professional relationships.
CPE may be a component of one’s preparation for ministry within a religious community, chaplaincy, lay ministry, teaching, health ministry and counseling. Some students, after completing several units of CPE, choose to enroll in Educator CPE, working toward certification as an Educator.
USC Arcadia Hospital is accredited to offer Level I and Level II and Education CPE by ACPE: The Standard for Spiritual Care and Education. ACPE, is an accrediting agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
ACPE may be contacted at:
We Work, Floor 4 120 West Trinity Place Decatur, GA 30030 404-320-1472 http://www.acpe.edu
The USC Arcadia community is culturally and religiously diverse. Our chaplains practice cultural humility with respect to the social locations and faith traditions of their patients, even as they develop a deeper understanding of their own faith and cultural uniqueness.
Full-Time CPE units are offered quarterly. Students meet Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. through 5 p.m. and have on-call duties on evenings and weekends.
Extended CPE units are offered in the fall and early spring, students may enroll for 22-week units which involve approximately 20 hours per week education and spiritual care visitation. Usually, these units meet on Thursdays for educational components and on the weekend days for service in the hospital.
CPE interns are not eligible for stipends, housing, or meal tickets.
Education CPE units are available to a limited number of qualified applicants as positions become open. Educator CPE entails a full-time commitment over several years. Requirements for admission into Educator CPE include sufficient ministry experience to demonstrate pastoral competence, the successful completion of Level II outcomes (usually four or more units of CPE), and membership in the ACPE. Educator Candidates are eligible for yearly stipends plus health benefits.
Our center is committed to giving fair and thorough consideration to all qualified applicants and to enhancing the educational experience by selecting students with a variety of backgrounds and perspectives. We select students who are seminarians, clergy and laypersons according to aptitude for learning, capacity for self-reflection and potential for ministry without regard to age, gender, race, national origin, disability, religious affiliation or sexual orientation. Successful applicants generally have completed at least one year of graduate theological education or specialized training in their particular faith traditions.
Clinical Pastoral Education Schedule 2023-2024
Dates Tuition
2023 Fall Fulltime Unit Tuition: $750 September 25 – December 15, 2023
2023 Fall/Winter Extended Unit Tuition: $900 September.28, 2023 – March. 14, 2024 (Thursdays & Weekends)
Clinical Pastoral Education Schedule 2024-2025
2024 Winter Full-Time Unit Tuition: $750 January 3 – March 15, 2024
2024 Spring Full-Time Unit Tuition: $750 April1 – June 21, 2024
2024 Spring/Summer Extended Unit Tuition: $900 March 28 – September 5, 2024 (Thursdays & Weekends)
2024 Summer Full-Time Unit Tuition: $750 July 1 – September 20, 2024
2024 Fall Full-Time Unit Tuition: $750 September 30th 2024 – December 20, 2024
2024 Fall/Winter Extended Unit Tuition: $900 September 19th 2024 – March 12, 2025 (Thursdays & Weekends)
Clinical Pastoral Education Schedule 2025-2026
2025 Winter Full-Time Unit Tuition: $750.00 January 6th 2025 – March 28th 2025
2025 Spring Full-Time Unit Tuition: $750.00 April 2th 2025 – June 20th 2025
2025 Spring/Summer Extended Unit Tuition: $900.00 March 20th 2025 – September 4th 2025
2025 Summer Full-Time Unit Tuition: $750.00 June 25th 2025 – September 12th 2025
2025 Fall Full-Time Unit Tuition: $750.00 September 17th 2025 – December 5, 2025
2025 Fall/Winter Extended Unit Tuition: $900.00 September 18th 2025 – March 12th 2026
For more information please contact our Spiritual Care Department at
626-574-3433.
Sometimes making the right decision in the face of serious illness can be complicated. When there is uncertainty or disagreement, the Bioethics Committee can help.
The Bioethics Committee is a group of physicians, nurses, social workers, chaplains, other staff members and members of the community who are available to help patients, families, doctors and other health care provides when they face difficult ethical decisions.
The Bioethics committee meets free of charge to provide a safe, supportive, confidential forum in which you and others can think through a problem, consider different points of view and sort through options. Every attempt is made to involve key members of the health care team as well as the patient and family, as appropriate, in the process. After discussing the ethical issues at stake, the Bioethics Committee offers advice in the form of a nonbinding recommendation. It is then up to those involved to decide what to do next.
Before you contact the Bioethics committee, it is recommended that you first speak with those involved in your health care situation, and that you use all available resources in the hospital to try to resolve the problem or dilemma.
Often, meeting with the patient, family members, physicians, nurses, social workers, chaplains, patient representatives, and other members of the hospital staff can help those involved come to an agreement. If what should be done is still unclear, you may contact the Bioethics committee. A Bioethics request can be initiated by any hospital staff, patient or patient family member.
Ethical dilemmas may arise for patients, family members, medical staff members and physicians alike.
Some of the issues surrounding problems for which ethics consultation may be requested include:
Examples of ethical dilemmas may include the following:
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USC Arcadia Hospital has an extensive volunteer program that includes more than 600 volunteers to support patients and staff in a variety of ways. The volunteers collectively donate more than 52,000 hours a year in services throughout our hospital. Our volunteers are assigned to more than 40 different service areas and departments where duties range from patient interaction to administrative tasks, depending on the volunteer’s strengths and interests. We strive to provide hope, comfort, and convenience to our patients and their families, and our volunteers play an important role in this endeavor.
USC Arcadia Hospital offers a variety of services and locations for those who want to volunteer. Listed here are a few areas to consider – each location has physical and skill requirements, all areas require excellent customer service and communication.
Please see the Volunteer Requirements tab for application; once submitted we will respond with the next orientation date.
Interested in volunteering at USC Arcadia Hospital? Call us at 626-574-3646.
Next 2025 Recruitment: The next recruitment will be announced on our website. Please check back regularly starting September 2025 for updates. Recruitment opportunities are based on hospital needs and may vary.
Student Volunteer Requirements
Feel free to contact us if you have any questions or would like more information on volunteering opportunities.
Volunteer Services Office To reach the office, email or call us with the contact information below. Email Volunteer Services 626-574-3646
Darlene Burge Director of Service Excellence/ Volunteer Services Email Darlene 626-574-3582
Lindsey Eddy Volunteer Program Coordinator Email Lindsey 626-821-2325
