Los Angeles, California-based Olympia Medical Center, a small 204-bed Los Angeles area hospital, has elected to voluntarily shut down all medical activities on March 31, 2021, and layoff 451 healthcare and support employees.
The owner of Olympia Medical Center, Irvine, California-based Alecto Healthcare, has sold the facility to the UCLA Health System which plans to renovate and repurpose the facility.
According to a UCLA spokesperson, “UCLA Health regularly considers property purchases and growth opportunities in the region that allow us to expand access to care for patients who need our services. The operators decided to sell the property and will be winding down their services over the next few months before closing the hospital.”
"UCLA Health will be launching an initial planning process for a state-of-the-art major facility renovation of the former Olympia Medical Center campus. The initial plans will include exploration of inpatient and outpatient mental health services — a dire and unmet need in Los Angeles County with few and shrinking providers of inpatient care."
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