Here’s to you, the patients, families, volunteers and communities who inspire and push us to be our best in all that we do. Read the stories about our staff and patients and the many others who inspire us.
“I started having seizures when I was 6,” says 16-year-old Alfred Guilfoil, who has nocturnal tonic-clonic frontal lobe seizures. “My seizures only occur at
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“At first, what’s expected of you seems overwhelming,” says Richard Sassin, a cardiology patient who joined the
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“I’ve volunteered for more than 3,000 hours,” says John Goldrick, a volunteer at UCLA
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“Waiting for my biopsy results was the longest 10 days,” says 44-year-old Brenda Palacios, who was diagnosed with stage 1 breast cancer in March of
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“I had a cholesteatoma, which is a growth in the ear that breaks all your ear stuff,” says Kenneth Sadler, who came to UCLA Health
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My son Josiah was born with a complex congenital heart defect in 1991. We were told he would have to wait for his surgical repair
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It has been over five years since Alexa was last released from the hospital. After being diagnosed with
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It was on the second week of June 2018 when I noticed a lump on the left side of my face between my ear and
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In Oct. of 2017, I had a dual lung transplant at UCLA/ Ronald Reagen Medical Center
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“I was at a barbeque when I got the call to mobilize our extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) team,” says Read more »
“My mom came out of the elevator and heard ‘he’s code blue, he’s code blue,’ and she walked to my room where I had flat-lined,”
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Before coming to UCLA, I was diagnosed with advanced stage cancer of the base of tongue with lymph node involvement. I was treated with chemo
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