For more than 45 years, CHOC Children’s has been steadfastly committed to providing the highest quality medical care to children. Affiliated with the University of California, Irvine, our regional pediatric healthcare network includes a state-of-the-art 238-bed main hospital facility in the City of Orange, a hospital-within-a-hospital in Mission Viejo. CHOC also offers many primary and specialty care clinics, over 100 additional programs and services, a pediatric residency program, and four centers of excellence - The CHOC Children’s Heart, Cancer, Neuroscience, and Orthopaedic Institutes. 

With admissions growing by 124% since 1998, CHOC Orange and CHOC Mission combined rank as the 17th busiest children’s hospital in the country.  For more information visit us on the web at www.choc.org

Here are some of CHOC’s Firsts:

• First in Orange County to open an emergency room for children
• First California children’s hospital to perform robotic surgery
• Nation’s first and only American Diabetes Association-certified pediatric diabetes program
• Performed the first bone marrow transplant in Orange County
• The first and only to perform pediatric open heart surgery in Orange County
• First in the nation to collaborate with the Boys & Girls Club to have a pediatric health care clinic on site at the club
• Orange County’s first and only pediatric heart program
• First Radio Lollipop studio on the West Coast
• First in the nation to use the LICOX, a brain oxygen monitor, in young children with traumatic brain injuries
• Conducted the nation’s first balloon dilation of a cardiac lesion, now a routine cardiac procedure
• Only US site selected to evaluate the efficacy of a genetically engineered recombinant factor XIII (for clotting disorders)
• The only dedicated Neuroscience Unit in California
• The only Cord Blood Bank in Orange County and one of only a few in the nation approved by the National Marrow Donor Program
• The first and only to perform pediatric open heart surgery in Orange County