Each year, we provide more than 97,000 children with pediatric health care in a setting designed just for their needs.

Fast Facts:

• Founded in 1901, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles is the first pediatric hospital in Southern California.
• The only freestanding Level 1 Pediatric Trauma Center in Los Angeles County approved by the County Department of Health Services and accredited by the Committee on Trauma of the American College of Surgeons.  
• One of the country’s premier teaching hospitals, affiliated with the Keck School of medicine of the University of Southern California since 1932.
• One of only 11 children’s hospitals in the nation to be ranked “Best” on the prestigious U.S. News & World Report Honor Roll.
• Designated as a Magnet Hospital by the American Nurses Credentialing Center – an honor held by only 5 percent of hospitals nationwide.
• Surgeons at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles perform 15,500 pediatric surgeries each year—more complex procedures than any other hospital in Southern California.
• The Saban Research Institute of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles is among the largest and most productive pediatric research centers in the western United States.
• Children’s Hospital Los Angeles has 66,000 Emergency Department visits, admits 11,000 patients, and has 300,000 outpatients annually.