REMINDER, April 9, 2006 (PRIMEZONE) -- White Memorial Medical Center invites the community to celebrate on Sunday, April 9, 12:30 to 4:30 p.m. with a preview of its new specialty care tower. Open to the public, guests will enjoy tours of the new tower including the Emergency Department, Oscar De La Hoya Labor & Delivery Center, and the Healing Garden. There will be entertainment, refreshments and activities for children. There will also be a showcase of art by local area students featuring "Healthy Family & Our Community." Over 6,000 attendees are expected to attend.
The new tower is a 348,000 square foot, eight-story building featuring 167 beds, larger patient rooms, 10 labor, delivery and recovery rooms and state-of the-art technology.
Sunday, April 9, 2006 12:30 p.m. - Community celebration begins 1:45 to 2 p.m. - Ribbon cutting ceremony with Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Robert Carmen, Executive VP and COO of Adventist Health and Chair of the White Memorial Medical Center Board, Beth Zachary, CEO of White Memorial Medical Center, and David Lizzaraga, CEO of TELACU.
White Memorial Medical Center, 1720 Cesar E. Chavez Ave., Los Angeles, CA, 90033, at the south entrance of the hospital on Pennsylvania Ave.
WHO:
All members of the community are invited.
White Memorial Medical Center was founded in 1913 by the Seventh-Day Adventist Church. Its mission is to improve the quality of life and health for its community by offering superior cost-effective health services, providing medical and paramedical education, and by following Christ's example by creatively partnering with and serving its community.
White Memorial is taking this opportunity to thank the community for its years of support and for providing input into the design of the new building.
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Dignitaries cutting the ribbon to officially declare the facility open. Families and children enjoying the refreshments, entertainment and touring the new specialty care tower.
White Memorial has been a gift to my family, and a gift to the community I grew up in. Its taken care of my family, and its my hospital. I am fortunate to be able to contribute to the hospitals future with the Oscar De La Hoya Labor & Delivery Center and the Oscar De La Hoya Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
Oscar De La Hoya