For your convenience, your bedside phone has its own direct phone number and is available to you for outgoing calls, 24 hours a day. Phone calls inside the Los Angeles Medical Center and calls to local Los Angeles phone numbers (selected prefixes within the 310, 323, 213 and 818 area codes) are free. Long distance calls will incur a charge.

Quick dialing tips

• For all phone calls within the hospital or any on-campus departments, simply dial the five-digit extension (the last five digits). For local calls, dial 9, then 1 and then the area code and number.

• For long distance calls, dial 0 and wait for an operator to answer. Calls placed through an operator will be charged at a higher operator-assisted rate.

• Visitors and families are permitted to use cell phones.

Public phones

Pay phones and TTY phones are also available at various locations throughout the facility. Ask a member of your medical team if you need assistance in using one of these phones.