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South Los Angeles (SPA 6) University Muslim Medical Association, Inc. (UMMA) Community Clinic is the first Muslim American founded community-based health organization in the United States. Located in South Los Angeles, UMMA has a culturally and religiously diverse staff serving an equally diverse community.
The center was founded in 1952 and occupied a rented property on Fountain Avenue in the East Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles. When the center was established, it was the only mosque in Greater Los Angeles. It served a very small community of Muslim families and many early attendants were foreign Muslims attending local universities.
medschool .ucla .edu. The University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine, also known as the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA ( DGSOM ), is an accredited medical school located in Los Angeles, California, United States. Founded in 1951, it is the second medical school in the University of California system, after the UCSF School ...
The Muslim Public Affairs Council ( MPAC) is a national American Muslim advocacy and public policy organization headquartered in Los Angeles and with offices in Washington, D.C. MPAC was founded in 1988. According to the organization's website, MPAC seeks to correct misperceptions and improve public understanding and policies that affect ...
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California, United States.Its academic roots were established in 1881 as a normal school then known as the southern branch of the California State Normal School which later evolved into San José State University.
UCLA Health is the public healthcare system affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles, located in Los Angeles, California. It comprises a number of hospitals, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, and an extensive primary care network in the Los Angeles region. In 2007, UCLA Health founded Operation Mend, a program for treating ...
The school was founded in 1885, and is the oldest medical school in Southern California. The school's association with Children's Hospital Los Angeles began in 1932. In 1970, it formed the first academic Department of Emergency Medicine in the United States. By 1983, the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center was opened.
Medicine was a central part of medieval Islamic culture. This period was called the Golden Age of Islam and lasted from the eighth century to the fourteenth century. [6] The economic and social standing of the patient determined to a large extent the type of care sought and the expectations of the patients varied along with the approaches of ...