CHA Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center is the first Korean-owned and operated general hospital in the United States.

[citation needed] The master plan was designed to expand and modernize its facility and to fulfill the state's seismic safety mandate that all hospitals must meet by 2020.

The emergency department is staffed by a trained, multilingual team of physicians, nurses and ancillary staff, providing a culturally sensitive resource for the community.

Also included in Phase 1 of the master plan is building a new 650-spot parking structure for patients, employees and visitors and beautifying overall internal and external designs of the hospital campus.

[3] In February 2007, an investigation was launched after a hospital official allegedly "dumped" 54-year-old Gabino Olvera, a paraplegic patient, on a Skid Row street.

According to witnesses, Olvera was removed from a hospital van and was left writhing in a gutter, wearing nothing more than a soiled gown and a broken colostomy bag.