Loma Linda University Medical Center one of the tallest buildings in the Inland Empire. Because of its height and white coloration, it is possible to view the main hospital building from various locations around the San Bernardino valley and mountains. The hospital is currently undergoing a seismic upgrade project. Loma Linda University Medical Center made international news on October 26, 1984, when Dr. Leonard L Bailey transplanted a baboon heart into Baby Fae, an infant born with a severe heart defect known as hypoplastic left heart syndrome. Baby Fae died a few weeks later; however, this effort led to the successful infant heart transplant program,
Chacma baboon wild. This has reduced baboon numbers and disrupted their social structure. Due to hybridization between different baboon ("Papio") populations across Africa, authors have occasionally grouped the entire radiation as a single species, the hamadryas baboon, "Papio hamadryas". Arbitrary boundaries were then used to separate the populations into subspecies. Other authors considered the chacma baboon a subspecies of the yellow baboon, "Papio cynocephalus", though it is now recognised as a separate species, "Papio ursinus". The chacma baboon has two or three subspecies, depending on which classification is followed. Grubb et al. (2003) listed two subspecies, while Groves (2005) in Mammal Species