A smiling female UCLA Health physician and a smiling female UCLA Health nurse talking together in a courtyard outside of a UCLA Health hospital

DISCOVER A CAREER THAT WILL CONTINUALLY INSPIRE YOU

At UCLA Health, you can turn your exceptional abilities and your passion for helping others into a career you’ll love. You’ll be challenged and empowered in an atmosphere of learning and support, working alongside world-class colleagues as you contribute to our reputation as an internationally respected healthcare leader. Every day, you’ll be able to make a significant difference for our patients, our community, and your team members.

No matter where you work within our Southern California system, you’ll experience an incomparable variety of lifestyle options. From the city to the suburbs, beaches to the mountains, and everything in-between, you’ll discover an incredible diversity of locations offering unmatched choices for world-renowned culture, recreation, dining, shopping, schools and so much more.

EXPERIENCE AN EXTRAORDINARY CARING CULTURE

You can feel it the moment you walk through our doors. It’s a spirit and a sense of shared purpose and passion that lets you know you’re in a true place of inclusive, compassionate healing. That’s the UCLA Health culture, and it’s built on a clear Mission, a focused Vision, and enduring Values.

MISSION

MISSION

Every day, we strive to deliver leading-edge patient care, research, and education.

VISION

VISION

We are committed to healing humankind, one patient at a time, by improving health, alleviating suffering, and delivering acts of kindness.

VALUES

VALUES

Compassion, Respect, Excellence, Discovery, Integrity, and Teamwork form the foundation for everything we do.

CICARE – OUR WORLD CLASS PRACTICES

CICARE (See-I-Care) is more than just an acronym and some positive words to hang on a wall. It’s who we are and what we do. It is a tangible, consistent commitment that defines how we engage with every patient, family member and team member we come into contact with:

  • Connect with Compassion
  • Introduce yourself with Integrity
  • Communicate with Teamwork
  • Ask with Discovery
  • Respond with Respect
  • Exit with Excellence

CULTURAL NORTH STAR GUIDING OUR EVERY STEP

Within the David Geffen School of Medicine, we live by a set of core principles that unite us in our shared mission. These principles set clear and high expectations for our actions and interactions while helping us facilitate problem-solving, decision-making and collaboration. It’s our commitment to our mission and each other. This is our Cultural North Star.

  • We are united by our shared mission of advancing science and medicine
  • We work together to eliminate inequity
  • We are grounded in ethics and data
  • We balance the short and long-term effects of our actions
  • We come to work to make an impact
  • We are constantly curious
  • We seek out diverse voices
  • We embrace failures as opportunities to learn
  • We are strongest when we show empathy
  • We have the courage to be honest
  • We listen to understand
  • We engage in dialogue even when we disagree

Our commitment to responsibility and sustainability.

As the number one health system in California, UCLA Health is committed to addressing our environmental footprint and the impact it has on the communities we serve. That’s why we’re focused on empowering all of our staff, patients, and community members to find ways to help make our planet a healthier place.

Sustainability at UCLA Health means addressing the interconnection between environmental health, social equity and economic vitality to create healthy, diverse and resilient communities for this generation and those to come.

– Johnese Spisso, President & CEO, UCLA Health

We’re making tangible strides in securing a more sustainable future. Our efforts have been recognized by the Practice Greenhealth (PGH) Environmental Excellence Awards, the nation’s premier recognition program for environmental performance in the health care sector.

  • Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center received the most prestigious achievement for excellence in sustainability and is ranked as one of the Top 25 hospitals in the country.
  • Santa Monica UCLA Medical Center received PGH’s Emerald Award in recognition of our purchase of 100% renewable energy, the expansion of our “Greening the OR” program, and drought tolerant landscaping updates.
  • Our Greening the OR committee was recognized for leadership in implementation and innovation in our surgical suites, including carbon footprint reduction, recycling, and more.

To learn more about how you can get involved, contact uclasustainability@mednet.ucla.edu.

2020 Practice Greenhealth top 25 environmental excellence award
2020 practice greenhealth greening the or award
2020 practice greenhealth emerald award

HISTORY, AWARDS & RECOGNITION

At UCLA Health, our rich heritage of medical breakthroughs is establishing a foundation for an even more exciting future. Year after year, our team members have consistently pioneered new treatments, drug discoveries and clinical innovations, and have earned the highest industry honors. As part of our team, you can help us continue building on our reputation of innovation and discovery.

1949

Dr. Benedict Cassen of the UCLA Department of Radiology develops the rectilinear scintillation scanner.

1956

UCLA Health performs the first open-heart surgery in Western United States.

1958

UCLA Health researchers develop the first techniques for fetal monitoring.

1962

UCLA Health develops nerve transplantation techniques.

1964

We create the international industry standard test for tissue typing.

1974

UCLA Health develops positron emission tomography (PET) technology.

1976

We perform the first total shoulder replacement.

1987

Bone marrow, kidney, heart, liver, and pancreas transplant services are offered at one hospital for the first time in the Western United States.

1993

We complete the first successful live donor liver transplantation in Southern California.

1998

UCLA Health Professor Louis J. Ignarro wins the Nobel Prize.

1999

Dr. Michael Phelps, chair of the Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology and inventor of PET scanning, is awarded the Enrico Fermi Award.

2001

UCLA Health plastic surgeon, Dr. Marc Hedrick and his research team make a breakthrough in the harvesting of stem cells.

2003

A new vaccine based on UCLA Health research is shown to stop the progression of Type 1 diabetes.

2005

UCLA Medical Center receives Magnet® Designation from the American Nurse Credentialing Center (ANCC).

2009

UCLA Health Cardiologist, Dr. Jesus Araujo is honored for research on the effect of air pollution on heart health.

2010

Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center is re-designated as a Magnet Hospital.

2011

UCLA Division of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery receives a “3 star” rating from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS).

2012

Expanded campus in Santa Monica opens, including UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica; UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital; the Los Angeles Orthopaedic Hospital; and the UCLA Rape Treatment Center.

2016

UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica, achieves Magnet status.

2016

UCLA scientists develop a roadmap for personalized brain cancer treatment.

2017

UCLA Health receives both HIMSS Stage 7 Inpatient and Ambulatory designations.

2018

Silver Workplace Health Achievement, American Heart Association, 2018.

2018

UCLA Health receives the Practice Greenhealth Emerald Award for sustainability and environmental stewardship.

2018

UCLA Health receives the HIMSS Nicholas E. Davies Award of Excellence in recognition of our progressive use of healthcare information technology (IT).

2022

UCLA study identifies how the brain links memories.

2022

David Geffen School of Medicine named one of the country’s top medical schools by U.S. News & World Report.

AWARDS & RECOGNITION

  • Forbes – America’s Best Large Employer – #7 in Healthcare, #21 in Nation
  • Becker’s Review – 150 Top Places to Work in Healthcare
  • Forbes – Best Employer for Women – #5 in Healthcare, #20 in Nation
  • Forbes – America’s Best Large Employer – #10 in Healthcare, #42 in Nation
  • Forbes – Best Employer for Diversity – #5 in Healthcare, #55 in Nation
  • Becker’s Review – Top Places to Work
  • Forbes – Best Employer for New Graduates – #3 in Healthcare, #6 in Nation
  • Newsweek – Most Loved Workplace
  • Forbes – Best Employer by State – #1 in Healthcare, #9 in California
  • Becker’s Review – 150 Top Places to Work in Healthcare
  • Newsweek – Top 100 Most Loved Workplace – #6 in Healthcare, #82 in Nation
  • Forbes – Best Employer by State – #16 in CA.
  • Forbes – Best Employer for Diversity – #4 in Healthcare & CA, #26 in Nation.
  • Forbes – Best Employer for Women – #1 in Healthcare #5 in Nation.
  • Hospital Careers by HASC – Best 100 Hospitals to Work For – #7 in Nation.
  • U.S News & World Report’s #1 hospital in Los Angeles and California, #4 in the nation, 2020.
  • One of U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Children’s Hospitals” in the nation – UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital ranked among the best in the nation in: diabetes and endocrinology, neonatology, cancer, neurology and neurosurgery, nephrology, gastroenterology and gastrointestinal surgery, and orthopedics, 2020
  • One of U.S. News & World Report’s “Most Connected Hospitals”
  • Forbes Best Employers for Diversity, 2020.
  • Practice Greenhealth Top 25 Environmental Excellence Award, Greening the Operating Room Recognition Award and Circle of Excellence Award for green building practices – Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, 2020.
  • Practice Greenhealth Emerald Award and Greening the Operating Room Recognition Award – UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica, 2020
  • Forbes – Best Employer by State – #68 in CA.
  • Forbes – Best Employer for Diversity – #4 in Healthcare, #7 in CA, #21 in Nation.
  • Hospital Careers by HASC – Best 100 Hospitals to Work For – #7 in Nation.
  • CHIME HealthCare Most Wired Award, 2019.
  • HIMSS Analytics Acute Care Stage 7 award – Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital at UCLA and UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica.
  • BlackDoctor.org Top Hospitals for Diversity, 2019.
  • Becker’s Hospital Review Top 150 Places to Work in Healthcare, 2019.
  • American Heart Association Silver Workplace Health Achievement, 2019.
  • One of Hospitals & Health Network’s “Most Wired” hospitals in the nation – Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center.
  • Forbes – Best Large Employer – #7 in Healthcare, #111 in Nation.
  • Forbes – Best Employer for Diversity – #8 in CA, #25 in Nation.

DID YOU KNOW?

combined heart lung transplant

UCLA Health has the largest combined heart-lung transplant program in the country.

liver transplant

We performed our 6,000th liver transplant in June 2016 – the highest number of liver transplants performed at any one center in the U.S.

lung transplantation

We performed our 1,000th lung transplantation in September 2016, becoming the first program on the West Coast, and one of only seven centers nationwide to do so.

PROFILES IN LEADERSHIP & INNOVATION

Awards & recognition

Forbes 2024 AMERICA'S BEST LARGE EMPLOYERS
Forbes 2023 AMERICA'S BEST LARGE EMPLOYERS
Forbes BEST EMPLOYERS FOR DIVERSITY
Forbes AMERICA'S BEST-IN-STATE EMPLOYERS
Forbes 2023 the best employers for women
A Proud Partner of diversitynursing.com 2024
Becker's Healthcare Top Places to Work in Healthcare 2024
MOST LOVED WORKPLACE, Certified Company 2023
AFFILIATE TOTAL WORKER HEALTH, Advancing worker safety, health and well being
AMERICA'S MOST LOVED WORKPLACES 2023 Newsweek CERITIFIED BY Best Practice Institue