Loma Linda

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Loma Linda (disambiguation) .

Loma Linda
Loma Linda University Medical Center
Location in California
Loma Linda
Basic data
Foundation :	29th September 1970
State :	United States
State :	California
County :	San Bernardino County
Coordinates :	34 ° 3 ′  N , 117 ° 15 ′  W Coordinates: 34 ° 3 ′  N , 117 ° 15 ′  W
Time zone :	Pacific ( UTC − 8 / −7 )
Residents :	18,618 (as of: 2000)
Population density :	979.9 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	19.0 km 2  (approx. 7 mi 2 ) of which 19.0 km 2  (approx. 7 mi 2 ) are land
Height :	355 m
Postcodes :	92350, 92354, 92357
Area code :	+1 909
FIPS :	06-42370
GNIS ID :	1660935
Website :	www.lomalinda-ca.gov
Mayor :	Rhodes Rigsby

Loma Linda is a city in San Bernardino County in the US state of California , United States , with 20,300 inhabitants (as of 2004 ). The geographic coordinates are: 34.04 ° North, 117.25 ° West. The urban area has a size of 19.0 km².

population

Loma Linda has one of the largest Seventh-day Adventist churches in the world , with nearly 9,000 members . On average, the residents here live unusually long and surprisingly well into old age, alongside residents of the Greek island of Ikaria , on Ogliastra in Sardinia , on Costa Rica's Nicoya Peninsula and on the Okinawa archipelago .

Education and economy

The world's first clinical facility for proton therapy has been located in Loma Linda since 1990 . It is part of the Loma Linda University Medical Center. Loma Linda University Medical Center caused a stir in 1984 with the xenotransplantation of a baboon heart that was placed in the two-week-old baby Fae .

Loma Linda is also the headquarters of the Adventist Health System hospital group .

Personalities

• Don Vesco (1939–2002), motorcycle racer
• Richard Lawson (born 1947), actor
• Matthew Modine (born 1959), actor
• Ryan Trebon (* 1981), cyclocross rider
• Ruby Modine (born 1990), actress

Web links

Commons : Loma Linda  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Emily Esfahani Smith: The Lovely Hill: Where People Live Longer and Happier . In: The Atlantic . 4th February 2013.
2. ↑ Christiane Heil: Fit and happy until old age . In: FAZ , January 4, 2020. 
3. ↑ Rosy and Healthy - American doctors implanted a monkey heart in a baby. Der Spiegel , November 5, 1984, accessed January 11, 2013 .