New Six-Story Health Clinic Welcomes Patients Today
Los Angeles, CA · September 29, 2026
Mid-90s heat settles across the basin before noon today, making an early iced coffee and a shaded walking route your smartest morning moves.
The Lead
Patients arrived this week at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center’s newly completed six-story outpatient clinic building, marking the first operational milestone in the county’s $1.8 billion campus overhaul. The 373,000-square-foot facility brings primary care, maternity, cardiology, and pediatrics together into a single hub featuring more than 200 exam rooms. For decades, South Bay residents navigated scattered, aging 1960s-era bungalows across the 72-acre campus to reach back-to-back appointments. By consolidating diagnostics and specialty clinics under one roof, the center is designed to serve roughly 300,000 visits each year while meeting California’s seismic upgrade mandates. County health officials celebrated the handover alongside the local workforce team that logged nearly half the project's construction hours. Focus across the property now turns to the adjoining nine-story acute inpatient hospital tower rising next door.
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Today's Outlook
- High 95°F · Low 62°F — Mainly clear
- Keep a refillable water bottle handy and favor tree-lined blocks during afternoon walks.
What's On Around Town
Today
Teen Crafternoon: Sticker Making Robert Louis Stevenson Branch Library (803 S Spence St), 4:00–5:00 PM · Free Design and print custom stickers using library supplies for neighborhood teens.
Dominic Fike The Wiltern (3790 Wilshire Blvd), 6:30 PM · Paid Catch the alternative songwriter and guitarist live in an art-deco setting.
An Evening With Carly Pearce GRAMMY Museum (800 W Olympic Blvd), 7:30–8:00 PM · Paid Intimate acoustic performance and creative conversation inside the Clive Davis Theater.
Lauren Halsey & Erykah Badu Hollywood Bowl, 8:00 PM · Paid Cosmic soul rhythms meet community-rooted visual art under the canyon sky.
Tomorrow
- Bruno Mars SoFi Stadium (1001 Stadium Dr), Inglewood, 7:00 PM · Paid
- Zara Larsson Greek Theatre, 7:30 PM · Paid
- Fruit Bats The Bellwether (333 S Boylston St), 8:00 PM · Paid
Thursday
- LA Phil Opening Gala With Yuja Wang Walt Disney Concert Hall, 7:00 PM · Paid
- Tokyo Tea Room Teragram Ballroom (1236 W 7th St), 8:00 PM · Paid
- Art Garfunkel The United Theater on Broadway (929 S Broadway), 8:00 PM · Paid
Spotlight & Story
- Cardiff Tower
- At Pico Boulevard and Cardiff Avenue, a ten-story tower with graceful arched cutouts looks like a house of worship. Unveiled in 1966 with Mayor Sam Yorty applauding its civic disguise, the structure encloses 40 working oil wells behind soundproofed walls.
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