At the heart of the Loma Linda University (LLU) campus stands The Good Samaritan sculpture, a compelling visual representation of the New Testament parable of compassion and of the LLU community’s sacrificial spirit of helping those in need of healing.

The LLU community was officially founded in 1905 by the Seventh-day Adventist Church and currently includes more than 4,000 enrolled students, 30,000 living alumni, 1,000 full-time faculty, 600 faculty physicians, and varying numbers of affiliated physicians, researchers, and administrators as well the broad public they selflessly serve. Diversified by culture, ethnicity, and vocational specialty, the LLU health sciences community is unified in its unique mission to further the healing and teaching ministry of Jesus Christ “to make man whole” by providing excellence in health care, education, and research.

Loma Linda University Medical Center (LLUMC) operates some of the largest clinical programs in the United States in areas such as neonatal care and outpatient surgery and is recognized as the international leader in infant heart transplantation and proton treatments for cancer. With approximately 600 physicians on staff, the institution admits more than 35,000 inpatients and serves more than 750,000 outpatients annually. As the only tertiary-care hospital in the area, LLUMC is the only Level 1 regional trauma center for Inland Southern California.

All physicians appointed to the medical staff of the internationally-acclaimed Medical Center also serve on the Loma Linda University (LLU) faculty and teach or undertake research with the LLU School of Medicine through Loma Linda University Health Care’s (LLUHC) Faculty Practice Plan.

As the LLU community works toward bringing wholeness to humanity through health science innovation, the wellbeing of the LLU community is itself nurtured by on-campus spiritual and ministry centers as well as a pervasive atmosphere that promotes balance within LLU community life.