Our Care
Our hospital is world-renowned for its patient care. The sickest, most seriously injured children are treated here.
- We treat more than 62,000 patients a year in our Emergency Department, alone.
- We admit more than 11,000 children a year to the hospital, with almost 50 percent of those admissions children under four years of age.
- There are more than 287,000 visits a year to our 29 outpatient clinics and laboratories; nearly 3,300 visits at community sites through our Division of Adolescent Medicine.
- We are able to offer the optimum in multidisciplinary care, with more than 100 pediatric subspecialties and subspecialty areas.
 Hospital Separates Conjoined Twins
Childrens Hospital's expertise was demonstrated in the separation of conjoined twins at our hospital. Regina and Renata Fierros, one-year old twins were joined at the abdomen and pelvis. A team of 80 caregivers at our hospital combined forces to intervene in their young lives to separate them, rebuild their young bodies, and care for them until they could return home for their recovery.
Facts about our Patient Care
Our pediatric cardiovascular surgery program is one of the five largest in the nation.
Our Center for Endocrinology, Diabetes, & Metabolism is one of the two largest programs in the nation for dialysis of children with chronic kidney failure - and the first in the world to provide dialysis.
The Cystic Fibrosis Center is the largest program in the West and one of the five largest in the United States.
Childrens Hospital Los Angeles was one of the first hospitals in the country to develop a children’s arthritis program (our Division of Rheumatology cares for children throughout five southwestern states).
We are an international leader in gene therapy for pediatric immune and genetic disorders.
We are the only children’s hospital to have a functional MRI program for studying brain development in children.
We care for the largest number of children with spina bifida in the country.
We have the largest program for metabolic diseases in the country.
We provide innovative surgery for treatment of disfiguring hemangiomas
Patient Care Statistical Report
Patients
| Number of Licensed Beds |
286 |
| Number of pediatric intensive care beds |
46 |
| Number of neonatal intensive care beds |
40 |
| Admissions (annual) |
10,992 |
| Outpatient Visits (annual)¹ |
222,013 |
| Surgery procedures (annual) |
7,612 |
| Anesthesia administration (annual) |
10,572 |
Charity Care and Other Community Benefits
| Charity Care² |
$1.5 million |
| Unpaid cost of Medi-Cal programs³ |
89.2 million |
| Unfunded support provided for research |
7.9 million |
Funds provided for training of allied health
professionals, physicians and residents |
6.5 million |
Funds provided for Community Service
Projects, Vulnerable Populations and the
Broader Community |
3.1 million |
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| ¹ Includes outpatient and lab visits |
| ² Measured by uncollected patient care charges for care provided to those with inadequate or no health insurance. |
| ³ The Medi-Cal program partially offsets these losses through the Disproportionate Share Hospital Program, designed to support “safety net” hospitals like Childrens Hospital Los Angeles. Childrens Hospital Los Angeles received $47.8 million in Disproportionate Share Hospital Funding in FY 2007. |
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